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END of CYCLE

Town Planning and Space The price of land is giving importance to It should be noted that uniform experiences lead to a population that
Space and this should be viewed as a good thing; is not in favour of a Free Society: urban societies are faced with many
The economic players are those who do the evaluation and are afflictions; pollution, turmoil, loneliness, isolation, vagrancy… It is essential
consequently involved. to imagine other “possibilities” on the level of Quality and Diversity, but
Citizenship and Sharing are determining factors. It is the ART of BECOMING
Town Planning and Time Urban Planning cannot disregard the heritage that involves SPACE and TIME, and also resilience.
of the past and it commits to the future in the short, medium and long
term. Planning requires a time-based view, but prudence is needed; it “About the City” It is the inhabitants who create their City and not the
certainly begins with the future while taking into account everything that administration. The City is the result of natural human grouping; let us
may occur in the future, and indeed a great deal of open mindedness is not forget that the resident is first of all the citizen of somewhere and
called for. This does not detract from the current state of society, which needs to be assimilated into the City.
is the main reason for its development. But all this involves agreement and disagreement!
Past, Present and Future are inseparable, from analysis to creation.
Let’s stop “Urban Disasters” Let us rethink Urbanism on agreed bases to
“Space, Time, Architecture” GIEDION or the awareness of a new concept get out of this End of Cycle by restructuring our URBAN FABRIC in order to
of Space in architecture, Space integrating the notion of Time, becomes accommodate the ARCHITECTURE that meets our needs, while respecting the
dynamic; During the Bauhaus period significant progress was made in process that leads us to the Quality of Life lost, and in the General interest.
terms of style. Thus a new architectural treatment of Space was born.
Man’s expression of the Act of Artistic Creation. Today the Past continues Always for the Future and in the Past, let’s determine our needs together
as the destruction of the Past. and upgrade our habitat.

“To conserve is to transform” Working with
architectural language and memory takes into
account the history of man and his experience. The
past revisited when taken as a testing ground can
enrich the Present and the Future, but putting it
back to what it was at the beginning is none other
than the desire to “stop” history!
“The project is therefore the metaphorical structuring
of constraining elements”
“As far as the architect is concerned, the
land is the construction site and not the
only graphic perception of the blueprint.”
It is the architect-builders who have
maintained what is most transmissible
in architectural culture (Violet -le -Duc)
“But how do the exterior and the interior
and their components fit together?“
The way living creatures, animal or human, construct
their “territory” in order to create a world connecting
the outdoors and the indoors has been analysed. It
is through the “medium” which is used in logic or in
ethics that we get the World.

“Make the City” It means becoming one with it, but at
the same time determining appropriate ways to act and
and the means to live together with the understanding of
what “makes the community” and what “makes the World“

Texts of ref. : Thierry Paquot : Repenser l’Urbanisme - Désastres Urbains. © Depositphotos/olechowski
Pierre Merlin : L’Urbanisme. Chemetov : Le Territoire de l’Architecte
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