De l’invention en architecture. Initier, situer, durer (“Invention in architecture. Initiating, situating, sustaining”) written by Stéphane Bonzani, was published by Éditions deux-cent-cinq:
What does it still mean for an architect to invent in today’s troubled Anthropocene landscape? And if there is such a thing as invention in architecture, how does it differ from other modes of inventiveness?
At a time when the world’s habitability is in crisis, the notion of invention, common to both philosophy and architecture, is being re-interrogated according to other coordinates.
The novelty we expect from all invention – and today, perhaps even more than ever, we need to invent, create and imagine in order to re-inhabit – can no longer be based on destruction, invisibilization and simplification, unless it leads to further devastation.