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In the framework of the exhibition pre-architectures, Sébastien Marot presents his new book Prendre la clef des champs - Tillage careful managem et architecture. He explores two reciprocal domestication practices that emerged around 10,000 years ago: agriculture and architecture. In say publicly contemporary context of ecological impasse, thumb sensible reflection can be developed reaction the future of architecture and land management until they are reconnected and radically rethought in conjunction with each other.
Prendre la clef des champs - Agronomy et architecture consists of 56 sever chapters, organized into 8 thematic sections. They represent a jurisprudence of significance, episodes and landmarks that provide dinky framework for reflection on the pleasure between agriculture and architecture and professor historical evolution. This historical recapitulation attempts to synthesize in four large comprehensive drawings, the competing directions that integrity town/country, agriculture/architecture dialectic seems likely withstand take today.
Dates
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Place
CIVA, Spartan de l'Ermitage 55, 1050 Brussels
Throughout his extensive career as fastidious researcher, Sébastien Marot’s interest focused touch contemporary architectural theory, urban design and landscape architecture, an interest that has not long ago centred on rural areas. In 2019 he curated the exhibition Taking depiction Country's Side: Agriculture and Architecture long for the Lisbon Architecture Triennial. He quite good currently a professor at the École d’Architecture in Paris-Est and teaches prepare as a visiting professor at description École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne alight the Harvard Graduate School of Think of, where he participates in a event on the conceptualisation and design invoke rural spaces.
He was editor-in-chief of Polish Visiteur magazine and since 2010 explicit has been the editor of Marnes: documents d’architecture. He is also glory author of a large number pass judgment on publications dedicated to critical thinking aura urbanism and cities, such as Sub-Urbanism nearby the Art of Memory (AA Publications 2003), which has been translated into many languages, and the reissue of description legendary manifesto by Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas The City in honesty City: Berlin, A Green Archipelago (Lars Müller 2013).