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Dans cet essai sur Livio Vacchini, Paolo Amaldi revisite le sens de son œuvre en s'appuyant d'un côté sur la genèse des projets au travers des documents d'archives et, de l'autre, sur de nombreux témoignages de collaborateurs et collègues qui l'ont croisé. L'auteur dégage le portrait intellectuel d'un protagoniste majeur de l'architecture du XXè siècle en l'inscrivant(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
avril 2026
Livio Vacchini : La construction paradoxale de la forme
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Dans cet essai sur Livio Vacchini, Paolo Amaldi revisite le sens de son œuvre en s'appuyant d'un côté sur la genèse des projets au travers des documents d'archives et, de l'autre, sur de nombreux témoignages de collaborateurs et collègues qui l'ont croisé. L'auteur dégage le portrait intellectuel d'un protagoniste majeur de l'architecture du XXè siècle en l'inscrivant dans l'environnement culturel et architectural du Tessin à partir des années 1970. L'ambition est de renverser l'image monolithique de Vacchini en contrant l'idée selon laquelle ses édifices seraient, par leur aspect essentiel, voire schématique, la transcription ou la traduction d'idées ou de notions claires, ou le résultat de logiques constructives cohérentes. Les bâtiments de Vacchini apparaissent, bien au contraire, au fil des pages, comme des objets problématiques et paradoxaux dont l'évidence de la forme, telle qu'elle apparaît initialement, se dissout dès que commence l'expérience que nous en faisons.
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La puissance des images
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« La puissance des images » croise Art X (1952) de Charles et Ray Eames, George Nelson et Alexander Girard avec la Knowledge Box (1962) de Ken Isaacs, deux pédagogies révolutionnaires de l'art et du design par l'image. Héritières des dispositifs immersifs de projections du XIXe siècle d'une démocratisation du savoir à grande échelle, ces avalanches d'images expérimentales(...)
La puissance des images
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« La puissance des images » croise Art X (1952) de Charles et Ray Eames, George Nelson et Alexander Girard avec la Knowledge Box (1962) de Ken Isaacs, deux pédagogies révolutionnaires de l'art et du design par l'image. Héritières des dispositifs immersifs de projections du XIXe siècle d'une démocratisation du savoir à grande échelle, ces avalanches d'images expérimentales procèdent par un court-circuit des raisonnements inductifs, l'abolition des frontières entre les disciplines, et entre les champs de la connaissance et de l'apprentissage. Loin d'être des cas d'étude du passé, elles tentent de contrecarrer la perte d'attention liée aux séductions technologiques de la vision et leur impact, une préoccupation dont nous faisons l'expérience encore aujourd'hui.
Théorie du design
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The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in October 2024 at York University to a sold-out in-person audience and online viewers from multiple continents. Four Alchemists—thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies—shared their ideas of cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures have(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
octobre 2025
The city of our dreaming: The Alchemy Lecture 3
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The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in October 2024 at York University to a sold-out in-person audience and online viewers from multiple continents. Four Alchemists—thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies—shared their ideas of cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures have been captured and expanded in these pages. Princeton professor of architecture V. Mitch McEwen borrows the language of the swamp to suggest a city modeled on buoyancy, inviting us to consider floating "as something other than displacement." Iranian-American writer Laleh Khalili dreams of radical kinship, where even strangers have the means and desire to share a table, "creating [bonds] through the rituals of reciprocal giving." In the Bantu/Kongo tradition, Brazilian architect Gabriela Leandro Pereira points to dreams as the site from which all Black emancipation begins, leading to "projects paved by the audacity to inhabit."
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À travers un ensemble de projets, de démarches et de pratiques situées, cet ouvrage explore les capacités de l’architecture à répondre aux enjeux climatiques, sociaux et démocratiques. Il met en lumière des réponses concrètes, ancrées dans des contextes territoriaux variés, et donne à voir l’architecture en action, attentive aux lieux et aux usages. À l’automne 2024,(...)
Faire avec les territoires: Panorama d'architectures vivantes
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À travers un ensemble de projets, de démarches et de pratiques situées, cet ouvrage explore les capacités de l’architecture à répondre aux enjeux climatiques, sociaux et démocratiques. Il met en lumière des réponses concrètes, ancrées dans des contextes territoriaux variés, et donne à voir l’architecture en action, attentive aux lieux et aux usages. À l’automne 2024, le Conseil national de l’Ordre des architectes et les dix-sept conseils régionaux ont organisé une trentaine de rencontres territoriales dans l’Hexagone et en outre-mer : les événements Architectures et Territoires comprenant visites, débats, conférences...Les architectes et les acteurs locaux ont montré que l’architecture propose des réponses concrètes aux défis contemporains.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form are fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the(...)
Mysteries of a Communist Cave, Gumshoe #2
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Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form are fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the Gumshoe series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyer’s building for the French Communist Party’s (PCF) central committee in Paris. Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyer’s PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist structure that can thus help us concretely picture just exactly what Structuralist Marxism might have been. Shaw draws out the PCF’s language and context one element at a time and puts the elegant curtain-wall building, with its cave-like assembly hall, into revelatory dialogue with interlocutors in film, philosophy, anthropology, and politics.
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Hélène Cixous’s powerful new book, masterfully translated by Peggy Kamuf, is a vivid journey through fire. From the ashes of wars, wildfires, and upheaval, Cixous traces a dramatic path across time—from the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of Oran to the European wildfires of 2022—weaving a rich, intimate narrative that merges history, autobiography, and myth.(...)
Incinarration: What do we carry?
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Hélène Cixous’s powerful new book, masterfully translated by Peggy Kamuf, is a vivid journey through fire. From the ashes of wars, wildfires, and upheaval, Cixous traces a dramatic path across time—from the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of Oran to the European wildfires of 2022—weaving a rich, intimate narrative that merges history, autobiography, and myth. With her piercing, lyrical voice, Cixous confronts the human cost of destruction and upheaval, and asks a universal question: What do we carry with us when everything we know is falling to ashes? In ''Incinarration'' Cixous finds hope in the power of words, memory, and imagination to illuminate our darkest moments and redeem the future. As forests burn and regimes collapse, Cixous shows us how stories become a form of resistance—a way to remember, to bear testimony, and to find renewal in the face of oblivion.
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For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from those of the past. Planners pursued progress, whether focused on flying vehicles above, sewage systems below, or daily life in between. Yet, as Bruno Carvalho shows in this original and wide-ranging history, which features some sixty illustrations,(...)
The invention of the future: A history of cities in the modern world
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For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from those of the past. Planners pursued progress, whether focused on flying vehicles above, sewage systems below, or daily life in between. Yet, as Bruno Carvalho shows in this original and wide-ranging history, which features some sixty illustrations, modern cities continuously defied predictions. Visionary designs and technological innovations created dramatic, unforeseen outcomes, and the ongoing urban boom is a story of continuity as well as rupture. A compelling history of imagined futures and the transformation of urban life, The Invention of the Future also suggests what we might learn from the stories of our cities as we shape them for the twenty-first century.
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Artists Making Books
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''Artists Making Books'' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics that make artists’ books so(...)
Artists Making Books
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''Artists Making Books'' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics that make artists’ books so compelling today.
Théorie de l’art
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The ''Subjective Atlas of Groningen'' brings together a diverse group of Groningers mapping the province and what it means to be “at home,” in order to share and make visible the personal, but often invisible, experiences of various resident groups in Groningen. Created through participatory workshops and public activities – including exhibitions, events, and(...)
The subjective atlas of Groningen
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The ''Subjective Atlas of Groningen'' brings together a diverse group of Groningers mapping the province and what it means to be “at home,” in order to share and make visible the personal, but often invisible, experiences of various resident groups in Groningen. Created through participatory workshops and public activities – including exhibitions, events, and participatory sessions across the province – the project invites local communities to share their stories, becoming visible both physically and online. In seven workshops organized by the partner organizations, approximately 80 participants explored their vision of “being at home” in Groningen. Through creative sessions, they reflected on personal themes and developed visual contributions, fostering interaction and providing space for diverse perspectives and stories.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
The arctic cities
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Where are the Arctic cities, who inhabits them, who shaped their development, and how might they evolve in the future? This book explores the history, planning, and design of urban settlements across the Arctic, tracing how they have been formed by colonial expansion, Indigenous cultures, resource extraction, and welfare-state ambitions. It examines the complex(...)
The arctic cities
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Where are the Arctic cities, who inhabits them, who shaped their development, and how might they evolve in the future? This book explores the history, planning, and design of urban settlements across the Arctic, tracing how they have been formed by colonial expansion, Indigenous cultures, resource extraction, and welfare-state ambitions. It examines the complex relationships between landscape, infrastructure, and community, while considering the challenges and opportunities facing northern cities today. Against a backdrop of climate change, globalisation, and shifting geopolitical interests, the book reflects on how Arctic urban communities can navigate an uncertain future and reimagine their role in a rapidly changing world.
Théorie de l’urbanisme