Elegy. Lament for an architectural project. information design celebrating excesses

celebrating excesses

we hope to explore what we might learn about these past examples of catwalk writing as a way to move the discipline forward

as are her interpretations of such classics as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Hunting of the Snark

in which they intervened as architects and builders

Manuel Scholl

Elegy. Lament for an architectural project. information design celebrating excessesElegies derives from Histoire(s) du cinema (1998), published after the completion of an eight part video project by Jean Luc Godard (19302022). Composed almost entirely of visual, textual, and auditory quotes, that book assimilates the course of the 20th century in the history of the movie industry, merging fiction and documentary in a speculative and intricate allegory. The content of Elegies chosen for the specific field of the architectural project