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The Atelier de la Conception de l'Espace (ALICE), affiliated with
the School of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, is an educational facility focusing on preparing students
for the practice of architecture. To cultivate the ability to
create or shape space, students must be confronted with an
educational framework that prepares them for the field's many
practical challenges, from cultural, social, environmental, and
physical concerns to working with the wide range of collaborators
who must bring their creativity and expertise together in the
design process. The second volume in a four-part series on ALICE,
The House 1 Catalogue focuses on a prototype, House I, developed
and constructed throughout the academic year. This mobile structure
incorporates ALICE's core values of communication and collaboration
in building processes, and it will travel as part of an exhibition
to several major cities, where it will be continually modified and
reconfigured. With five hundred illustrations, this book continues
the experimental narrative Dieter Dietz, Matthias Michel, and
Daniel Zamarbide began in The Invention of Space, which will be
further developed in the forthcoming third and fourth volumes in
the series. ALICE plays a key role in the success of one of
Europe's leading schools of architecture, and this book, together
with the three other volumes in the series, provides an opportunity
to explore the exceptional learning environment ALICE offers.
Following on from the 2017 House 1 project, a public architectural
intervention in Zurich, ALICE's teaching programme and the All
About Space series enter the realm of urban and suburban space. The
series' latest volume Beyond the Object: The Imagination of Space
proposes an alternative idea and cultural history of architecture
that is derived from the notion of spatial design rather than that
of technical objects and constructions. Thus current topics like
urban planning, the correlation of public and private spaces,
social and economic development are wrapped up into more general
questions: What are our common and scientific understandings of
space and spatial correlations and how can they apply to
contemporary architectural practice and education? The underlying
narrative of Beyond the Object: The Imagination of Space is loosely
tied to the exemplary urban context of Zurich. Yet it addresses the
topic with decidedly global scope. And like the previous books The
Invention of Space and House 1 Catalogue, the new volume combines
fact with fiction to broaden the view upon future scenarios.
A business trip to London last month, a day visit in Cologne next
saturday and romantic weekend in Paris in autumn - this example
exhibits one of the central characteristics of today's tourism.
People in the western hemisphere take much pleasure in frequent and
repeated short term visits of cities. Every city visitor faces the
general problems of where to go and what to see in the diverse
microcosm of a metropolis. This book presents a computational
framework for the generation of personalized city tours - as
extension of the Open Location Specification of the Open Geospatial
Consortium.
ALICE (Atelier de la conception de l'espace) is an innovative
educational laboratory affiliated to the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) School of Architecture. Its objective
is to provide students with the first essential tools for the trade
of architecture. With the new series All About Space, faculty and
students aim to share their work with the public. The four books,
published annually between 2015 and 2018, combine fact, fiction and
speculation with ALICE's approach to work, focusing on the creative
understanding of space as a human condition. The initial volume The
Invention of Space explores how space is invented in terms of the
various cultural practices involved with spatial design. It
captures individual experience and investigates common invention
and comprehension of space, embracing topics such as the history,
metaphysics, or politics of environmental, virtual or simulative
space. The book concludes with also exploring the spatial
conditions of thought, emotion, fantasy, and imagination.
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