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La construction du couvent, l’un des 2 édifices d’architecture moderne d’importance nationale en Valais, remonte à 1631. Au cours du XXe siècle, il fait l’objet de restaurations, notamment après les dommages causés par le tremblement de terre de 1946. Mon ...
« Qu’est-ce que le Tiers-Etat ? Tout. Qu’a-t-il été jusqu’à présent dans l’ordre politique ? Rien. Que demande-t-il ? A y devenir quelque chose. » Pamphlet de Sieyès [janvier 1789] Délaissé par la ville, le terrain vague est le témoin des différentes ident ...
Cet ouvrage part d'un constat surprenant : l'émergence, à partir des années 2000, d'une série de projets de logements collectifs en Suisse utilisant des géométries irrégulières, tant dans la configuration intérieure des espaces domestiques que dans la form ...
Saurions-nous projeter à la fois l'avenir proche et lointain d'une architecture ? Donner une réponse périodique ou éphémère à celle-ci, et ainsi en prévoir les changements d'usages ? Envisager une sorte d'architecture de l'intermittence, dont l'affectation ...
Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...
Architecture and philosophy have engaged with one other, directly, marginally, or just simply implicitly, in the works and discourse of academics, practitioners, and critics, most evidently in architectural modernism, postmodernism, and most intensively in ...
The architectural production of Angola between 1961 and 1975 forms the basis of the current study. Taking into consideration that buildings' environmental performance is, at one time, one of the most central aspects of the Modern Movement legacy and a pres ...
The affirmation of reinforced concrete and the kinds of space generated by its structures is one of the most fascinating and revolutionary chapters in the history of twentieth century architecture and engineering. This richly illustrated, three-volume essa ...
The paper focuses on Giuseppe Samonà’s two early writings, the article "Tradizionalismo e internazionalismo architettonico" (1929) and the book "La casa popolare" (1935) where he embedded some Nordic examples among the first ever presented to the Italian a ...
With the introduction of the Marshall Plan to Europe after the Second World War, architectural practice for workers’ housing faced a paradigmatic shift by means of procedural approaches and spatial strategies as well as roles of planner, architect and comm ...
