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It's in Your Nature: I'm Lost in Paris

  1. Javier Arbona

Article first published online: 15 APR 2010

DOI: 10.1002/ad.1074

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment

Volume 80, Issue 3, pages 46–53, May/June 2010

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Arbona, J. (2010), It's in Your Nature: I'm Lost in Paris. Archit Design, 80: 46–53. doi: 10.1002/ad.1074

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  1. Issue published online: 15 APR 2010
  2. Article first published online: 15 APR 2010

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Keywords:

  • R&Sie(n) and Pierre Huyghe, Broomwitch, Meudon, France, 2008;
  • Raymond Williams;
  • François Roche's work;
  • Stéphanie Lavaux;
  • Giant water systems;
  • Mosquito Bottleneck (Trinidad, 2003);
  • ‘I'm Lost In Paris’(2008);
  • Soweto memorial-museum and library;
  • Hector Pieterson;
  • age-old philosophical materialism;
  • Shuhei Endo's otherworldly shrooms;
  • Michael Sorkin's deterministic eco-footprint cities;
  • R&Sie(n), I've Heard About, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2005;
  • R&Sie(n) Aqua Alta 1.0, Venice, Italy, 1998;
  • Mac;
  • Blackberry;
  • California Transit Authority;
  • Richard White's concept of the ‘organic machine’;
  • Julio Cortázar;
  • Carole Dunlop;
  • house that cannot stop growing;
  • hydroponic system;
  • a mechanised delight and an organic fright;
  • an odious ‘mechorganic’ cyborg.

Abstract

R&Sie(n)'s installation I'm Lost in Paris (2008), a disturbing take on the ecological house, epitomises the preoccupation of the French architect François Roche with the contradictions of modern nature. Javier Arbona tracks how Roche's notion of nature as ‘a partly human artifice’ which is both alien and personalised play out in his various projects, capitulating between attempts at overcoming alienation and heightening it. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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