Architectures of the Common Good. For an Ethics of Preservation.
MétisPresses| N° d'inventaire | 22314 |
| Format | 14 x 19 |
| Détails | 240 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940563593 |
Defending an architecture of the common good means questioning the architectural object by focusing on the social conditions of its construction, its use, attachment to places, and even its specific spatial practices. In this respect, the communities of the Atlas and the Moroccan Sahara represent a source of inspiration for thinking about the sustainability of contemporary construction. In oases and collective granaries, embodiments of the common good, it is the know-how of historical solidarity that is manifest. A testament to the human capacity to create a viable environment despite extreme climatic constraints, architecture is conceived as an object integrated into its environment, where agriculture and construction are closely linked around stone, earth, and the most resistant plants. Drawing on multiple construction site experiences carried out in Morocco, and widely reported in this book, Salima Naji shows that it is possible to go beyond the pure aesthetics of heritage, which opposes tradition and modernity in a sterile way, in order to question instead its resilience capital: a constant dynamic of adaptation that must be reactivated to escape global and harmful logics, of which the current omnipresence of concrete is the most obvious expression. As the author's work proves, it is possible, by multiplying integrative and participatory projects, to reinvest so-called "vernacular" techniques by recreating construction sectors for the benefit of true sustainable development.
Defending an architecture of the common good means questioning the architectural object by focusing on the social conditions of its construction, its use, attachment to places, and even its specific spatial practices. In this respect, the communities of the Atlas and the Moroccan Sahara represent a source of inspiration for thinking about the sustainability of contemporary construction. In oases and collective granaries, embodiments of the common good, it is the know-how of historical solidarity that is manifest. A testament to the human capacity to create a viable environment despite extreme climatic constraints, architecture is conceived as an object integrated into its environment, where agriculture and construction are closely linked around stone, earth, and the most resistant plants. Drawing on multiple construction site experiences carried out in Morocco, and widely reported in this book, Salima Naji shows that it is possible to go beyond the pure aesthetics of heritage, which opposes tradition and modernity in a sterile way, in order to question instead its resilience capital: a constant dynamic of adaptation that must be reactivated to escape global and harmful logics, of which the current omnipresence of concrete is the most obvious expression. As the author's work proves, it is possible, by multiplying integrative and participatory projects, to reinvest so-called "vernacular" techniques by recreating construction sectors for the benefit of true sustainable development.