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Sarah Nichols

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Concrete: Cosmetic and Care

Sarah Nichols, Akshar Shaileshkumar Gajjar, Marion Moutal

‘Concrete: Cosmetic and Care’ focuses on a heavy heritage: the mass of mainly post-war structures in reinforced concrete. The post-war building boom covered the globe with an unprecedented amount of concrete. Production of every ton of cement alone release ...

2023

Work in Progress: The Anthropocene Square Meter

Sarah Nichols, Marion Moutal, Tiffanie Paré, Ziu Tristan August Bruckmann

Humanity has fundamentally transformed Earth, making the creation of a new geological era, the Anthropocene. This model is physically documenting the Anthropocene as one square meter of Earth’s surface following a method first proposed by the renown geolog ...

2023

The Anthropocene Square Meter

Sarah Nichols, Marion Moutal, Tiffanie Paré, Ziu Tristan August Bruckmann

This is a model of the average cumulative anthropogenic change to the earth’s surface. It was proposed by Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor of Palacobiology at the University of Leicester. Zalasiewicz is known as one of the first people to put forward th ...

2023

Film: Concrete: Cosmetic and Care

Sarah Nichols, Akshar Shaileshkumar Gajjar, Marion Moutal

The film, Concrete: Cosmetic and Care is THEMA contribution to The Great Repair exhibition held at Akademie der Künste in Berlin from October 14 to January 14 2023 and at Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris from 6 March to 5 May 2024. ...

2023

Concrete in Switzerland. Histories from the recent past

Salvatore Aprea, Sarah Nichols

A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addre ...

EPFL Press2021

Opération Béton

Sarah Nichols

By studying approximately a century of cement and concrete in Switzerland, this project examines the relations between institutions, discourse, and technology as they intersect in the material. The project is framed so that the establishment of organizatio ...

ETH Zurich2020