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Venice, one of the world's most famous places, has a dual nature of
real city and myth. It is suspended in the struggle between sea and
soil and unable to survive without cyclical preservation and
continual compromise. The myth, which is largely shaped by
nostalgia and ideals of the past, superimposes today's real city
with its infrastructural challenges and can hardly be reconciled
with a concrete future. Venice Lessons: examines this conflict.
Based on a recent research program at EPFL's Laboratory Basel
(laba), it demonstrates how the city must constantly redesign its
historic image to retain its position as one of Europe's prime
tourist attractions while the necessary permanent renovation
undermines its livelihood. The findings are visualised in striking
images, graphics and maps. The book also features proposals for
architectural interventions by laba's students. Interlaced is a
reprint of Miroslav Sasek's famous picture book This is Venice
which reflects the common Venice nostalgia while the Venice Lessons
research context enables a fresh reading of this children's
classic.
Architectural objects confront their environment. They constitute a
boundary, a form with an internalised point of view. Understanding
architecture as environmental objects suggests a questioning of
these dichotomies of separation between the symbolic landmark and
the landscape background. It represents an architecture that
amplifies nature, attunes to it and makes us aware of it. Portugal
Lessons takes Portugal as a case study for such contextualism going
beyond an understanding of design as immunisation. Based on the
latest research program conducted by EPFL's Laboratory Basel
(laba), it explores the topic of this architectural boundary: with
whom we live, to whom we open our house, how permeable the boundary
should be. The findings are visualised in striking images, graphics
and maps. The book also features proposals for architectural
interventions by laba's students, all of them tackling issues of
housing.
The Middle East is the birthplace of the Neolithic revolution that
came to humanise and domesticate the planet. It is also considered
the cradle of civilisation as it saw some of the very first
developments in human social and technological inventions, such as
cities, class-based societies, monumental architecture, writing,
the wheel, and irrigation. The 2016/17 research campaign of EPFL's
Laboratory Basel (laba) took a critical look at the part of this
region that today forms the state of Israel and the role
agriculture there played in territorial appropriation and
domestication, in structuring the development of urbanisation, in
creating a national homeland narrative, and in changing the
climate. The research explored the three major types of Israeli
agricultural development: the vernacular Palestinian/Bedouin, the
socialist utopian Kibbutz/Moshav, and the contemporary high-tech
desert farming. 'Israel Lessons: Industrial Arcadia' presents the
findings as text as well as visualised in striking images, graphics
and maps. It also demonstrates how facts and narratives related to
agriculture and the climate crisis are intertwined with geopolitics
and sectarian ideals of earthly paradises. Proposals for
architectural interventions designed by laba's students round out
the book.
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