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		<title>CTRLZ Architectures + la vie meilleure&#8230; /// Happy Birthday to uuuuuuuuuuuuuu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CTRLZ Architectures est un collectif basé à Paris et formé par 2 architectes confus (mais pas trop quand même)&#8230;. et aujourd&#8217;hui est l&#8217;anniversaire d&#8217;un d&#8217;entre eux &#8211; Massimo &#8211; et nous en profitons pour lui dire bon anniversaire. En passant, on va aussi parler de leur projet FOR ALL THE COWS dont on a dernièrement [...]]]></description>
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<p>CTRLZ Architectures est un collectif basé à Paris et formé par <a href="http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/?page_id=2" target="_blank">2 architectes confus (mais pas trop quand même)</a>&#8230;. et aujourd&#8217;hui est l&#8217;anniversaire d&#8217;un d&#8217;entre eux &#8211; <a href="http://twitter.com/ctrlzarch" target="_blank">Massimo</a> &#8211; et nous en profitons pour lui dire bon anniversaire.</p>
<p>En passant, on va aussi parler de leur projet FOR ALL THE COWS dont on a dernièrement entendu parler sur <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/48174/forallthecows-ctrlz-architectures/" target="_blank">ArchDaily</a>, <a href="http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.com/2010/02/forallthecows-by-ctrlz-architectures.html" target="_blank">Boite à Outlis</a> et <a href="http://www.dailycharrette.com/forallthecows-ctrlz-architectures/" target="_blank">Daily Charrette</a>. Le projet a été initialement inspiré par les écrits de Serge Latouche, en particulier par l&#8217;article <a href="http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2003/01/PAQUOT/9866" target="_self">&#8220;Pour une société de décroissance&#8221;</a> qui commence ainsi:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Mot d’ordre des gouvernements de gauche comme de droite, objectif affiché de la plupart des mouvements altermondialistes, la croissance constitue-t-elle un piège ? Fondée sur l’accumulation des richesses, elle est destructrice de la nature et génératrice d’inégalités sociales. « Durable » ou « soutenable », elle demeure dévoreuse du bien-être. C’est donc à la décroissance qu’il faut travailler : à une société fondée sur la qualité plutôt que sur la quantité, sur la coopération plutôt que la compétition, à une humanité libérée de l’économisme se donnant la justice sociale comme objectif.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Alors, peut-on penser à une architecture de la décroissance?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-759" title="decroissance" src="http://complexitys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/decroissance.jpg" alt="decroissance" width="590" height="65" /></p>
<p><span id="more-753"></span>La question est difficile. Pour l&#8217;instant, on nous a bien vendu l&#8217;idée d&#8217;une architecture durable, mais comme Serge Latouche explique avec une logique irrépréhensible, le développement ne peut pas être durable, pour le simple fait que notre planète est limitée et non infinie. Il y en a alors qui commencent à mettre des points d&#8217;interrogation. Non plus &#8220;Architecture Durable&#8221; mais <a href="http://www.laciudadviva.org/blogs/?p=3643" target="_blank">&#8220;Architecture Durable???&#8221;</a> &#8211; superbe texte en espagnol de la journaliste <a href="http://twitter.com/ethel_baraona" target="_blank">Ethel_Baraona</a> dans lequel on lit cette phrase prise d&#8217;un <a href="http://www.herramienta.com.ar/revista-herramienta-n-38/abrir-la-caja-negra-del-sistema-para-mostrar-los-flujos-ocultos-entrevista-" target="_blank">entretien de José Manuel Naredo</a> <em>“Nous en sommes exactement au même point qu&#8217;il y a 10 ans, parce que nous avons conservé toute cette mythologie de la croissance et parce que l&#8217;idée de la durabilité a été traité de manière trompeuse.&#8221;</em><br />
D&#8217;autre part, le collectif <a href="http://thinkark.com" target="_blank">#thinkark</a> propose de re-penser la figure de l&#8217;architecte, et en particulier ils parlent souvent de ces architectes qui ne construisent pas.<br />
Les CTRLZ &#8211; le nom vient de la combinaison de touche logicielle utilisée quand on commet une erreur et on veut &#8220;revenir en arriéré&#8221; &#8211; suivent ce même discours, en proposant avec leurs projets non seulement des bâtiment mais un modèle de vie différent, basé sur les relations, l&#8217;autoproduction, la vision de l&#8217;architecture comme acte politique. Des thèmes surement pas nouveau, mais qui semblent être particulièrement d&#8217;actualité en époque de crise économique et, en même temps, de révolution numérique <a href="http://ecosistemaurbano.org" target="_blank">(&#8220;La communication est architecture&#8221;)</a>.</p>
<p>Voici des images du projets, vous pouvez trouver le texte intégrale &#8211; en anglais &#8211; et aussi télécharger le PDF du projet<a href="http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/?p=74" target="_blank"> ici.</a></p>
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<p>Il s&#8217;agit en fait de penser un nouveau mode de vie, de trouver cette &#8220;vie meilleure&#8221; à laquelle le <a href="http://www.courrierinternational.com/" target="_blank">Courrier International</a> a dédié la couverture de son dernier Hors Série (photo de <a href="http://www.helsinkischool.fi/helsinkischool/artist.php?id=9024&amp;type=portfolio" target="_blank">Janne Lehtinen</a>). Comme nous avons lu<a href="http://ecoloinfo.com/2009/10/14/la-vie-meilleure-mode-d-emploi-courrier-international/" target="_blank"> ici</a>, <em>Courrier International s’engage à publier chaque semaine, dans une page intitulée “vie meilleure”, des témoignages d’hommes et de femmes qui, aux 4 coins du monde, “réinventent leur vie, transforment leur quartier, renoncent à la voiture ou en restreignent l’usage, consomment autrement, travaillent moins et différemment“. </em></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-766   alignnone" title="courrier international" src="http://complexitys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/vie-meilleure1.jpg" alt="courrier international" width="350" height="444" /></p>
<p>Le texte de CTRLZ pour le projet For All the Cows commence en disant &#8220;Et finalement le désastre économique arriva pour sauver le monde&#8230;&#8221;<br />
Une exagération?<br />
Ça mérite tout de même d&#8217;y réfléchir&#8230;qu&#8217;en pensez-vous?</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>Si vous êtes intéresses, vous pouvez voir les autres projets de CTRLZ Architectures sur leur <a href="http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/">page web</a>, et vous pouvez aussi suivre <a href="http://twitter.com/ctrlzarch" target="_blank">Massimo sur Twitter</a>: c&#8217;est grace à ses twitts que j&#8217;ai decouvert le phénomène d&#8217;activisme politique <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening" target="_blank">Guerrilla Gardening!</a><br />
Ce post sera le premier d&#8217;une série qui mettra en valeur les activités architecturales que les membres de <a href="http://hdaparis.com" target="_blank">HDA</a> développent personnellement en dehors de l&#8217;agence: nous parlerons bientôt, par exemple, de <a href="http://immaginoteca.blogspot.com/2008/11/le-fils-du-patron-et-le-fils-de.html" target="_blank">Gaetan</a> et son <a href="http://ozcollective.com/" target="_blank">Oz Collective.</a></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-769 alignnone" title="post-01" src="http://complexitys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/post-01.jpg" alt="post-01" width="590" height="233" /></p>
<p><a href="http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/?p=54" target="_blank">AGER-AGRI</a>, projet pour une maison intégrant habitation et jardin potager | CTRLZ Architectures</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-770 alignnone" title="bat house" src="http://complexitys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bat-house.jpg" alt="bat house" width="590" height="236" /></p>
<p><a href="http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/?p=36" target="_blank">BAT 2.0, projet BAT HOUSE</a>,  maison pour chauve souris | CTRLZ Architectures</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-771 alignnone" title="cocoons1" src="http://complexitys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cocoons1.jpg" alt="cocoons1" width="590" height="273" /></p>
<p><a href="http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/?p=96" target="_blank">Hi Cycling System for Nazca Competition</a> | CTRLZ Architectures</p>
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		<title>Guggenheim side effects and the Architects&#8217; originality obsession</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>immaginoteca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on ArchDaily talked about our &#8216;in progress&#8217; footbridge at La Roche sur Yon. We&#8217;re pleased to be a subject of interest for a such an important architecture website, and what we appreciate even more is the public feedback and the list of comments left, which have inspired some interesting reflections about our [...]]]></description>
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<p>A recent article on <a href="http://" target="_blank">ArchDaily</a> talked about our &#8216;in progress&#8217; <a href="http://complexitys.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">footbridge at La Roche sur Yon</a>.<br />
We&#8217;re pleased to be a subject of interest for a such an important architecture website, and what we appreciate even more is the public feedback and the list of comments left, which have inspired some interesting reflections about our work here at <a href="http://hda-paris.com/" target="_blank">HDA</a>.<br />
I would particularly like to share some thoughts on the idea (or even obsession) of &#8220;being original&#8221; in architecture, the meaning of copying someone or something, and what this could imply nowadays, in a time when everybody is talking about copyright and how it&#8217;s changing with new communication technologies.</p>
<p>This is a very complex subject and I don&#8217;t have any firm ideas or theories, but I would like to use this post just to share some thoughts on it.<br />
<a href="http://www.archdaily.com/38586/in-progress-railway-footbridge-at-roche-sur-yon/" target="_blank">In the article I&#8217;m referring to</a>, the 80% (maybe more) of comments have a &#8220;this project looks like&#8230;&#8221; format, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m mindfully using the word &#8220;obsession&#8221; above.<br />
My first reaction was to think that these comments were negative, simply because they were saying that at HDA we are not original. But when I heard my principal Hugh Dutton saying happily &#8220;they&#8217;re comparing us to Calatrava, that&#8217;s great!&#8221;, I understood that my interpretation was very subjective.<br />
In fact, being original has something of an obsession for architects, but today it&#8217;s maybe becoming an antiquated attitude.<br />
<span id="more-335"></span>With a bit hindsight, it&#8217;s quite crazy to think that a lot of architects (am I one?) are always looking to be original and different. I would dare to say that architects with an originality obsession are much more common than the ones with the obsession of simply doing a good project. My perception is that this is in some ways linked with making money in architecture.<br />
If society is looking for spectacular contents, it&#8217;s quite evident that &#8220;show business&#8221; architecture is encouraged. Maybe I&#8217;m not being original if now I mention the <a href="http://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature1506/" target="_blank">&#8220;Guggenheim effect&#8221;</a> and that&#8217;s why I want to be the first architect who talks about the Guggenheim side effect, defined as a phenomena of  replacing architectural meaning with spectacular contents.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.unesco.org/courier/1998_09/uk/signes/txt1.htm" target="_blank"><em>&#8220;Suddenly there is this great titanium-clad mountain in front of you&#8221;</em></a><br />
Doesn&#8217;t this sound as a show business language?</p>
<p>But maybe this is coming to an end: as <a href="http://ecosistemaurbano.org/castellano/ciudades-de-codigo-abierto-la-arquitectura-del-espectaculo-ha-muerto-%C2%A1viva-la-arquitectura-sensata/" target="_blank">@ecosistema</a> says, &#8220;Architecture is not sensationalistic anymore. Helped by a double crisis, the one of the real estate agency and the financial one, sensible architecture is now born&#8221;.<br />
I totally agree with this vision of architecture, and I also would like to add that the coming of a more sensible architecture is also helped by new communication technologies, as I think that architecture will soon need to redefine itself as is happening with music or movies on the web.<br />
For music, there is a great example we can use to clarify this point:  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, a new web-based music browser supported by big music labels, is reinventing the music business, as it&#8217;s selling a service which allows you to listen to a large quantity of music, rather than to sell you CDs or songs.<br />
I&#8217;m starting to wonder if we shouldn&#8217;t set out something similar for architecture.</p>
<p>I believe this obsession for originality comes directly from the need to sell an image rather than a design service.<br />
This reminds me of when <a href="http://twitter.com/urbanohumano" target="_blank">Domenico</a> (Ecosistema Urbano office) said &#8220;I wish everyone copied our <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/6303/eco-boulevard-in-vallecas-ecosistema-urbano/" target="_blank">Ecoboulevard</a> project all over the world&#8221; as then the office would have become the world reference for this kind of project.<br />
That&#8217;s maybe the same wise and contemporary thinking we find, in an easier form, in one of the last comments<a href="http://www.archdaily.com/38586/in-progress-railway-footbridge-at-roche-sur-yon/#comment-67856" target="_blank"> (by PB) on the ArchDaily</a> post: &#8220;Looks incredible &#8211; I wish more plebeian structures were this beautiful…If it’s a good solution, why not copy it when it? As long as it is well done and carefully conceived.&#8221;</p>
<p>[ For italian readers who knows Baricco's novel "I barbari", I invite you to read this on <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/rubriche/i-barbari/cronache-invasione/cronache-invasione.html?ref=search" target="_blank">barbarian contemporary architecture. ]</a></p>
<pre>Credits: photo taken on Flickr by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbschlemmer/" target="_blank">him</a>: thanks.</pre>
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		<title>Naissance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ci siamo. HDA_Paris ha il suo blog, complexitys, una ricerca poliedrica sull&#8217;architettura contemporanea e la sua relazione al carattere intricato e multiforme della cultura dell&#8217;era delle comunicazioni. Questo blog nasce da una lunga riflessione di varie menti e, in ultima analisi, dall&#8217;aiuto e dai consigli dello studio Ecosistema Urbano, che proprio oggi ha concluso con [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ci siamo. <a href="http://www.hda-paris.com/" target="_blank">HDA_Paris</a> ha il suo blog, complexitys, una ricerca poliedrica sull&#8217;architettura contemporanea e la sua relazione al carattere intricato e multiforme della cultura dell&#8217;era delle comunicazioni. Questo blog nasce da una lunga riflessione di varie menti e, in ultima analisi, dall&#8217;aiuto e dai consigli dello studio <a href="http://www.ecosistemaurbano.org" target="_blank">Ecosistema Urbano</a>, che proprio oggi ha concluso con noi una formazione su comunicazione web strategica per studi di architettura.</p>
<p>Per il momento, forse, è meglio non aggiungere altro. Questo è solo un benvenuto.</p>
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<p>Per le foto qui sopra, ringraziamo tutti i partecipanti al gruppo flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/passerella/" target="_blank">Passerella 2006</a>, dove raccogliamo foto della nostra passerella olimpica a Torino.</p>
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