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Agriculture &
Architecture:
Taking the
Country’s Side




Prologue


Introduction


Timeline


A. Agriculture & Architecture

  1. Homo Domesticus
  2. Sublimation
  3. Coincidence
  4. Villa Suburbana
  5. Agritecture
  6. Self-Sufficiency
  7. Integration?


B. Agriculture & Urbanism

  1. The Urban Revolution
  2. Mundus
  3. Imago Mundi
  4. Land Use Model
  5. Nature to Market
  6. Urbanism
  7. Agrarian Urbanism?


C. From Agronomy to Agroecology

  1. A Hobby for Urban Elites
  2. Plantations and Enclosures
  3. From alchemy to Chemistry
  4. From War to Field Operations
  5. “Get Big or Get Out” 
  6. Permanent and Organic Agriculture
  7. Beyond Industrial Agriculture


D. Exit Urbs

  1. Zomia
  2. Monasteries
  3. Anarchy and Localism
  4. Ruralism
  5. “Think Little”
  6. “Workers of the World, Disperse”
  7. Becoming Native


E. Facing the Present Environmental Predicament

  1. “A Blueprint for Survival”
  2. Energy Descent
  3. 1972: “The Limits to Growth”
  4. “Beyond Industrial Technology”
  5. “Small is Beautiful”
  6. 1978: “Permaculture One”
  7. 2008: “Future Scenarios”


F. Reframing the Practice & Theory of Design

  1. Major Precedents
  2. Ethic and Design Principles
  3. A Radical Site-Specificity
  4. A Reformulation of Site Planning
  5. Deepening Territories
  6. Reconsidering Urbanism
  7. Sub-Urbanism?

Constellation


Compass


What is a world?



Current exhibition
Lectures


Interview


Gallery


Statements and Reviews


Book 


Info / Credits
Mark

Info            FR






Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side is an exhibition produced for the 5th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, commissioned to the master Architecture & Expérience, ENSAVT Paris-Est led by Éric Lapierre, in co-production with CCB - Garagem Sul in Lisbon.

The exhibition and this website were adapted by Archizoom for its presentation at EPFL in Lausanne.


Curator

Sébastien Marot



Contributor

Matthieu Calame (section C)


Illustrators

Martin Etienne (compass)
Gaétan Amossé (timeline)


Research team

Paul de Greslan, Raphaël Bach and Paul Bouet
With support from the Observatoire de la Condition Suburbaine (OCS), Research Lab of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires at Paris-Est.


Acknowledgements

For their inspiration, conversation, suggestions, challenges or critical comments: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Matthieu Calame, Su Dennett, David Holmgren, Rob Hopkins, Wes Jackson, Rem Koolhaas, Éric Lapierre, Dennis Meadows, Colin Moorcraft and Carolyn Steel.
And also: Armelle Antier, Josephine Billey, Christophe Bonneuil, Jacques Delamarre, Sophie Deramond, Roland Freymond, Romain Leonelli, Harrison Lillis, Oscard Morand, Paule Pointereau, Marco Rampini, Augustin Rosenstiehl, Matthew Skjonsberg, Cyril Veillon, Rhys Williams, and students from the master Architecture & Expérience at the Ecole d'Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris Est: Nils Bailly, Reda Erraziqi, Rose Hewins and Pauline Kinsky.


Exhibition at CCB - Garagem Sul, Lisbon (September 2019 - February 2020)

Carla M. Cardoso  (coordination)
Éric Lapierre (ELEX) with Claudia Mion  (exhibition design)
Marco Balesteros - Letra  (graphic design)
Vasco Corisco  (translation)
Ricardo Chambel (proof reading)
João Timóteo  (video editing and subtitles)Constança Bettencourt, Bernardo Bettencourt, Rebeca Lewis Lopes, João Margarido, Francisco Marques Leal, Mafalda Matos, Ruben Silva (timeline Wall Paint)

Exhibition at Archizoom EPFL, Lausanne (February 2020 - October 2020)

Raphaël Bach (associate producer),
Emilie Bruchez (communication),
Clémence Dubuis (production and web designer),
Cyril Veillon (director)

Exhibition at Archipel, Lyon (May 2022 - August 2022)

Marie Civil (production, coordination),
Anaëlle Thollet (coordination and mediation assistant),
Collectif Pourquoi Pas !? (exhibition design),
Tony Simões Relvas (graphic design)

Exhibition at Les Halles St-Géry, Brussels (September 2022 - November 2022)

Urban.brussels,
Halles St-Géry,
Karbon’,
Guy Condé-Reis, 
Lucile de Calan,
Hubert Lionnez,
Luna Van Aubel,
Tony Simões Relvas

Exhibition at La Belle de Mai, Marseille (February 2023 - May 2023)

Bureau des guides du GR 2013,
Alexandre Field (associate producer and coordination),
Cité de l’Agriculture,
Sophia Ditjli and Marion Schnorf,
Tony Simões Relvas (exhibition and graphic design)

Exhibition at La Plateforme, Grenoble (July 2024- Octobrer 2024)

Raphaël Bach (coordination),
Julie Gauthier (Grenoble Métropole),
Elise Deroche, Jalle Moulin and Léo Taillefer (setup)
Tony Simões Relvas (exhibition and graphic design and setup)


Website design

Clémence Dubuis
Nathan Benarroch
Léo Taillefer


The exhibition presentation in Lausanne was made possible thanks to the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and CCB - Garagem Sul.
For more information on the first presentation in 2019 in Lisbon follow this link:
https://2019.trienaldelisboa.com/en/exposicoes/agriculture-and-architecture-taking-the-countrys-side/