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Ardeth
ISSN 2532-6457 · Rosenberg & Sellier · 274 articles in the index
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Eight Repair Lessons
This short commentary explores the relation between fragility, repair and hope in moments of crisis and destruction. It argues for fragility and repair rather than permanence or timelessness as modes of architectural endurance in the world, and for the ineluctable presence of hope as anchor and…
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Architecture as a Convivial Tool
Starting from Ivan Illich’s concept of conviviality, which challenges the excess of consumption and the mass industrial production of goods and services of contemporary society, this paper analyses three projects of the French practice BAST. Particularly, through a triangulation with Illich’s…
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The Importance of Dynamic Evolving Architecture
Broken World thinking encourages us to view existing buildings through a new lens, shifting our focus on sustainability from absolute measures like carbon emissions and energy consumption to circularity within the built environment. Existing and historic buildings transform from hard-to-treat…
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An Intergenerational Shift in Mindset
The conservation, maintenance, and repair of the built environment have recently taken center stage in architectural discourse. This shift is driven by the urgent need to operate within planetary boundaries and to adopt sustainable approaches – not only environmentally, but also socially and…
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Whence Architecture
Architecture is routinely taught and practiced as an art and science of extraction. In this modality, design is construed as ideas and geometries imposed upon extracted matter and energy, as represented here through brief material stories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Seagram…
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Inhabiting Fragility
This article explores fragility as a core concept for rethinking architecture and its relationship with the built environment. Challenging traditional notions of permanence and mastery, it reframes fragility as a generative force that fosters adaptability and care. Architecture is positioned as an…
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We’re Going Down by, Down by, the Muddy River
This visual essay reports on collaborative research conducted by Latitude Platform on the cellars of houses that pixelate a large part of the Brussels underground. The cellars of Saint Antoine, one of the poorest and most densely populated neighbourhoods in Brussels, are inhabited spaces tormented…
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Beyond Dying Bodies: The Set of Gravity and Likbodsprojektet
This visual essay explores fragility as a conceptual framework guiding the architectural design process, drawing on informal practices that imagine care scenarios. It focuses on architectural bodies at the end of their life cycle, exploring them as new sites for architecture. The concept of…
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Complaint as Action in the Corviale at Rome
Uncountable stories reveal details about how people live, struggle and make sense of their everyday life at the Corviale in the outskirts of Rome. Through a research project that positions maintenance as a cultural practice and not merely a technical one, this paper focuses on alliances, conflicts…
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Durable Fragilities
Mud-domed houses in northern Syria represent a living architecture shaped by fragility, care, and cyclical renewal. Rather than relying on permanence, their resilience is rooted in ease of repair, material intelligence, and cultural practices of maintenance. These structures blur the boundaries…
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The Fragile Night
Infrastructure systems are inherently fragile. Their functioning depends on routines of repair, replacement, and management. Infrastructure embodies networks of political power, capital, and territorial reconfiguration. Through the concept of instrumentalising fragility, I examine infrastructural…