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Le midi des livres: Chat with Paolo Cascone

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Amphi 11 - ENSAPLV - 144 avenue de Flandre, 75019 Paris

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The “Le midi des livres” cycle continues. Paolo Cascone, author of ” African Fabbers Atlas. Manual of Synthetic Vernacular Architecture “is the guest of the next chat.
He will be talking with Françoise N’Thépé, associate professor (VT-UPU) at ENSAPLV, who contributed to the book.

Paolo Cascone is founder of the architecture firm COdesignLab, Scientific Director of the African Fabbers School and Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster in London.

Book cover – © DR

African Fabbers Atlas
Manual of Synthetic Vernacular Architecture
Paolo Cascone

How can we respond to climate change by reconciling nature and tekné? What is the social role of technology? How might architects reconsider their practices in favor of community projects? The theoretical hypothesis of this research is based on the observation of cause-and-effect relationships between different urban and architectural configurations and their performances: social, environmental, structural, etc., in pre-colonial and informal African cultures.

With contributions from : Christian Benimana, MASS (Architect/Rwanda) – Cheick Diallo (Designer/Mali) – Ron Eglash (Professor of Information at the University of Michigan/United States) – Ugo La Pietra (Designer/Italy) – Hanif Kara, AKT II (Professor in practice of technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design/United States) – Vincent Kitio (UN-Habitat/Kenya) – Giancarlo Mazzanti, El Equipo Mazzanti (Architect/Colombia) – Ronald Rael, Rael San Fratello (Professor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley/United States) – AbdouMaliq Simone (Senior Professional Fellow at the University of Sheffield Urban Institute/United Kingdom) – Françoise N’Thépé (Architect/France-Cameroon).

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