a road trip in Maracaibo

« Quelque chose d’autre ordonne et localise, rassemble et situe, relie et distingue, rythme et cadence, mais qui n’aurait plus la forme d’une Société, et qu’il faudrait suivre à la trace, par d’autres méthodes. Par la photographie, peut-être, ou, plutôt, par des séries de photographies qu’il faudrait apprendre à lire en continu - même si nos habitudes de pensée les interrompent et les dispersent. »
Bruno Latour & Emilie Hermant, Paris ville invisible, 1998

Maine-Montparnasse re-assembling a metropolitan centrality

As a start, I am going to present an urban project called Maine-Montparnasse re-assembling a metropolitan centrality. The main subject of the project was to discover the site of Montparnasse in Paris (France) as a field of actions in opposition of what the French government (Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme APUR) calls a ZAC (zone d’aménagement concerté).

welcome to wandering in space

This blog was created to expose series of different projects with an ambition in mind: create a critical and political thinking about architecture, urbanism and - in a greater extent - about the question of space. The idea is not to define a precise notion of what architecture or urbanism are but, through different kinds of works (from essays, comments to exhibitions of architectural projects or art works), to grasp an idea of space that tries to open and ask questions rather than gives answers. The notion of space will be questioned in various aspects to push further and further the presets of the architectural thinking. All this seems to be ambitious but I hope that bit by bit this blog will unfold, through the accumulation and variety of work, to a dense and meaningful research platform.
As usual, the start might get a little confusing but I hope to redefine more precisely the idea of the research through the projects. There are so many subjects that I hope to cover in this « space-diary» that I do not want to confine myself in any kind of theoretical point of view that might be not precise or pertinent yet.
I hope that this is the beginning of a nice adventure…