The Maasai are an ethnic and semi-nomadic group who have developed a vernacular architecture that reflects the socio-economic functioning of their society.
Anastasis Church, Álvaro Siza
The Anastasis church, is a white concrete monolith designed by Alvaro Siza, built in the heart of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande in France. The sacred building is the first church built in the 21st century in Brittany, but it is also a modular place open to the life of the neighbourhood.
Fujian Tulou, the Hakka Walled Villages
The Fujian Tulou are rural dwellings in the Fujian region of China. The earthen buildings were built by the Hakka people from the 12th century to the 20th century. Their architecture is recognizable for its size, shape, construction technique and above all for its unique function both defensive and organized for the community.
The Architecture of Parliaments Around the World
The study Parliament explores through 5 typologies the relation between architecture and politics. These typologies are often inspired by ancient influences and most of them have not changed since the 19th century. But the question remaining is how could architecture shape political culture ?
The Total Theater of Bauhaus
Among the many Bauhaus workshops, one of them stands out for being at first glance unsuitable for the school’s teaching. The Bauhaus theater workshop is not a craft workshop and does not aim to create utilitarian objects. However, it is a perfect example of the synthesis of the arts.
World Map centered in Buenos Aires
This map uses an equidistant azimuthal projection. This type of projection consists in defining a central point and represent each point of the map at a correct proportional distance from the defined center. This map is centered in Buenos Aires.
Heliografías, the Architecture of Madness
León Ferrari was an Argentine conceptual artist whose practice was often ironic, absurd, and above all anti-institutional. During his period of exile in Brazil he began his Heliografías series. These drawings are composed of urban plans, highways, building typologies, furniture, and many identical inhabitants, in order to form an aggregation without much coherence.
The Flevoland Observatorium
Robert Morris is an American sculptor considered one of the founders of minimalism and also an early practitioner of land art. The Flevoland Observatorium that he bult in Netherlands stages a megalithic representation of the passage of time.
Mundus Subterraneus, Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century jesuit scholar. Polymath and extremely prolific he published 39 major and highly influential works. After an excursion in the Vesuvius, Athenesius Kircher wrote the first published treatise on geology: Mundus subterraneus.
Cemeteries: le champ de repos
Following his appointment as administrator of the department of the Seine in Paris in 1799, Jacques Cambry discovered the Parisian cemeteries in an appalling state. He then published a report augmented by an urban and architectural proposal. This came in a context favourable to the evolution of the Parisian cemeteries.