Résister et fleurir
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Printemps 2020. En plein confinement, un professeur donne un cours sur l’utopie et la dystopie en s’inspirant d’une lutte menée dans le quartier Hochelaga à Montréal. Les résident·e·s du secteur se mobilisent pour défendre un terrain vague, où la nature a repris ses droits, contre la construction d’un terminal de transbordement de conteneurs. Bruit, poussière et(...)
Résister et fleurir
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Printemps 2020. En plein confinement, un professeur donne un cours sur l’utopie et la dystopie en s’inspirant d’une lutte menée dans le quartier Hochelaga à Montréal. Les résident·e·s du secteur se mobilisent pour défendre un terrain vague, où la nature a repris ses droits, contre la construction d’un terminal de transbordement de conteneurs. Bruit, poussière et vibrations 24 heures sur 24… Le projet de Ray-Mont Logistiques, emblématique de la mondialisation économique, fait craindre le pire. Quel pourrait être le point de bascule dans cette lutte citoyenne ? En quoi les utopies peuvent-elles être le moteur d’une communauté ? Comment contrer la destruction des écosystèmes ? Alors que les « zones à défendre » se multiplient, ''Résister et fleurir'' livre une réflexion profonde sur le monde que nous voulons bâtir... ou détruire.
Urban Landscapes
La ville insoutenable
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La relation millénaire entre ville et campagne, qui associait deux termes nettement distincts par leur forme autant que par leur fonction, a tendu à se défaire au XXe siècle, dans les pays riches, pour laisser place à un mixte de ces deux termes: la « ville-campagne ». Cet habitat d'un genre nouveau pose de gros problèmes, tant au plan social qu'à celui des paysages et(...)
Urban Theory
May 2006, Paris
La ville insoutenable
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La relation millénaire entre ville et campagne, qui associait deux termes nettement distincts par leur forme autant que par leur fonction, a tendu à se défaire au XXe siècle, dans les pays riches, pour laisser place à un mixte de ces deux termes: la « ville-campagne ». Cet habitat d'un genre nouveau pose de gros problèmes, tant au plan social qu'à celui des paysages et de l'environnement. Ceux-ci culminent aujpurd'hui en un paradoxe insoutenable : la quête de « nature » (dans les représentations) entraîne la destruction de la nature (en termes de biosphère). Ce livre collectif s'attache à retracer l'histoire des motivations qui ont conduit à ce paradoxe, du mythe arcadien au libéralisme post-fordiste, dans trois « bassins sémantiques » : l'Europe occidentale, l'Asie orientale et l'Amérique du Nord, en éclairant leurs originalités mais aussi leurs multiples confluences.
Urban Theory
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Si notre aujourd’hui est bien un temps de ruines, ces dernières ont une saveur nouvelle. « Ce que peuvent les ruines » fait l’hypothèse d’un devenir ruine comme projet. Il ne s’agit pas d’esthétiser la destruction. Nous souhaitons dépasser la tentation romantique de la contemplation d’un monde finissant et le tragique vaniteux de la célébration des ruines comme formes.(...)
Architectural Theory
April 2023
Plan L**** 205: Ce que peuvent les ruines
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Si notre aujourd’hui est bien un temps de ruines, ces dernières ont une saveur nouvelle. « Ce que peuvent les ruines » fait l’hypothèse d’un devenir ruine comme projet. Il ne s’agit pas d’esthétiser la destruction. Nous souhaitons dépasser la tentation romantique de la contemplation d’un monde finissant et le tragique vaniteux de la célébration des ruines comme formes. Des ruines de quoi ? Des ruines de Rien, s’étonne Bouvard face à la construction faussement détruite de Pécuchet. La ruine, pensée comme une structure qui se déforce et qui, dans un équilibre précaire, laisse advenir l’imprévu, l’indéterminé, se tourne alors vers un avenir radieux. L’architecture y est instable et de second plan. Les ruines de ce numéro, comme les ruines de nos quotidiens, sont examinées pour leur capacité d’agir, ou de laisser agir.
Architectural Theory
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Capital’s voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of "never enough." The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate breakdown, environmental ruin, alienated labor conditions, and the destruction of local construction knowledge. But what if we could do architecture differently? What does non-extractivist(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2025
Abundance not capital: The lively architecture of Anapuma Kundoo
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Capital’s voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of "never enough." The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate breakdown, environmental ruin, alienated labor conditions, and the destruction of local construction knowledge. But what if we could do architecture differently? What does non-extractivist architecture look like? In this book, Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny introduce the concept of abundance to call for a paradigm shift in architecture. Using as its example the exceptional work of architect Anupama Kundoo, this book shows that non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture is undeniably possible. Kundoo, born in Pune, India, weaves together innovative technological experimentation and traditional crafts. With careful consideration of local resources, building skills, climate, and environment, she makes buildings that embody spatial beauty and graceful materiality.
Architecture Monographs
After the flood
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In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city’s broken levees. He began to photograph, house by house. Polidori has found something worth saving, has created mementos for those who could not return, documenting the paradoxically beautiful wreckage. In classical terms, he has found(...)
After the flood
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In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city’s broken levees. He began to photograph, house by house. Polidori has found something worth saving, has created mementos for those who could not return, documenting the paradoxically beautiful wreckage. In classical terms, he has found ruins. The abandoned houses he recorded were still waterlogged as he entered and as he learned (by trial and error, a process that including finding a dead body) the language of signs and codes in which rescue workers had spray-painted each house’s siding. He sees the resulting photographs as the work of a psychological witness, mapping the lives of the absent and deceased through what remains of their belongings and their homes.
Photography monographs
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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world — and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: What manages to live in the ruins we have made? 'The Mushroom at the End of the World'(...)
The mushroom at the end of the world, second edition
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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world — and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: What manages to live in the ruins we have made? 'The Mushroom at the End of the World' explores the unexpected corners of matsutake commerce, where we encounter Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human devastation. The book delves into the relationship between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Environment and environmental theory
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Founded by Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths College in London in 2010, the research agency Forensic Architecture has investigated dozens of incidents of state violence—military intervention, environmental destruction, border violence and police murder. Working at the intersection of architecture, law, journalism, human rights and ecology, Forensic Architecture researches(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2022
Forensic architecture: Witnesses
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Founded by Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths College in London in 2010, the research agency Forensic Architecture has investigated dozens of incidents of state violence—military intervention, environmental destruction, border violence and police murder. Working at the intersection of architecture, law, journalism, human rights and ecology, Forensic Architecture researches conflicts and crimes around the world, using architectural tools and methods to conduct spatial and architectural analyses of particular incidents. They do not design new buildings, but like other architects, they examine and model spaces, with the aim of shedding light on events. This catalog focuses on the witnesses at the core of Forensic Architecture’s work. Featuring texts by Weizman, Christina Varvia and a roundtable discussion between members of the current team, this richly illustrated book opens a window into Forensic Architecture’s working methods and projects.
Architecture Monographs
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Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was it, in fact, a crime against humanity? How should the descendants of(...)
Among the dead cities: is the targeting of civilians in war ever justified?
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Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was it, in fact, a crime against humanity? How should the descendants of the Allies who won the victory in that war, reply to the moral challenge of the descendants of those whose cities were targeted? The author looks at the stands people took, both for and against, and asks what the lessons are that we can learn for today about how people should behave in a world of tension and moral confusion, of terrorism and fragile democracies.
Architectural Theory
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The Fragile Monument is a study of the discourse of conservation and its effect on the notion and role of the monument in contemporary western society. Through a revisionist account of the history of conservation, the book explores how the monument has been transformed from an object that originally communicated permanence to an object that is perceived as fragile and in(...)
September 2011
The fragile monument : on conservation and modernity
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The Fragile Monument is a study of the discourse of conservation and its effect on the notion and role of the monument in contemporary western society. Through a revisionist account of the history of conservation, the book explores how the monument has been transformed from an object that originally communicated permanence to an object that is perceived as fragile and in need of protection. The argument put forward is that the expansion and popularisation of conservation is bound to a narrative of loss and danger that reveals a paradoxical relationship between destruction and preservation. In a series of case-studies the book shows how spatial devices have been used to negotiate this paradox and how this use of space has contributed to the defining of the monument as an object of conservation.
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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss(...)
The undiscover'd country: W.G. Sebald and the poetics of travel
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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss and destruction. Following these cues, the contributors wander the various modalities of travel in Sebald's writing in order to discover how walking, flying, sojourning, and other kinds of peregrination inform the relationship between writing, reading, memory, and place in Sebald's work. At the same time, the essays uncover in innovative ways the affinities between Sebald and literary travelers like Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, Adalbert Stifter, Christoph Ransmayr, and Joseph Conrad.
Theory of Photography