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The recent development of an interdisciplinary field of reflection about and around the commons seems to assume a significant distance, in the field of architecture, concerning the disciplinary culture that preceded it. This article invites the protagonist ...

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...

As the case of Paris embodies, a whole culture of the European city has built its identity and organized the collective life of its inhabitants on the idea of homogeneity. The homogeneous city has thus significantly contributed to the collective self-repre ...

The recent development of the “Common” as an interdisciplinary field of reflection seems to show some restraint with respect to the architectural culture that precedes it. This proposal invites to explore the intensities and the reasons for such a resistan ...

Throughout Europe, the dominant housing production practices of the last century seem to be running out of steam. Housing is looking for a future. The weakening of the power of the state, the instability of the markets and the ecological emergency have led ...

Entre mai et juin 2020, des citoyen.ne.s scientifiques de toute la Suisse ont répondu à cette question dans des groupes de réflexion : les Citizen Think Tanks. Avec des chercheuses et chercheurs de l’EPFL, ils ont élaboré des scénarios pour l’avenir après ...

La contribution remarquable de Elinor Ostrom (Prix Nobel d'Économie en 2009) a fortement orienté la production scientifique sur le "commun" entendu comme ressource, et continue de privilégier les aspects économiques et de gouvernance qui en découlent. Sa d ...

L’association des biens communs à la ville est le propre de ce début de siècle. Elle constitue un virage théorique marquant, particulièrement lisible dans le débat interdisciplinaire de ces dix dernières années. Ni son amplitude, ni ses retombées ne peuven ...

Relating the megastructure to the issue of the Commons is a useful exercise to understand the success and the disappearance of what Peter Reyner Banham called the “dinosaurs of the Modern Movement”. All these large-scale constructions suffered the same fat ...

À l’intérieur des récits de la modernité architecturale, et au-delà dans sa divulgation générale, l’Existenzminimum, associé au deuxième Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne, est très souvent cantonné à un caractère évènementiel, étudié en tant que ...

L’effervescence avec laquelle le domaine de l’architecture s’est emparé du « commun » ces dernières années s’est principalement cristallisée dans une dynamique de remise en cause des modèles architecturaux qui nous ont précédés et de célébration de l’infor ...

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Introducing the architectural values of the commons

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool

Does the Homogeneous City Belong to the Past?

Introducing the architectural values of the Common

Cooperative or undifferentiated: Two visions for housing

Mon logement à l’épreuve du confinement : Quelles orientations pour l’après ?

Les formes architecturales du Commun

Quels horizons pour des communs agro-urbains ?

The Tragedy of the Megastructure

Quels horizons pour des communs agro-urbains ?

De l’Existenzminimum à l’existence commune

Espace Collectif et Bien Commun, Mise à l’épreuve d’une transposition interdisciplinaire

Living an ordinary common

Une éthique du projet pour la ville du XXIe siècle ?