Manor Lessons
Commons Revisited. Teaching and Research in Architecture
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Beschreibung
England’s West Country and local traces of the manorial system are the subject of the concluding volume of the successful Teaching and Research in Architecture series produced by EPFL’s Laboratoire Bâle (laba)
Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership, and use of common resources such as land. This is especially true in Britain with its long history of privatization stemming from land enclosure. The latest research campaign of Laboratory Basel (laba), a satellite studio of the EPFL in Lausanne operating 2011–20, investigated the English manor house and how it can serve as a testing ground to reassess Britain’s complex and ongoing relationship with the countryside.
Southwest England is the most rural region of one of the more densely populated countries in Europe. It reflects all the absurdities of a globalized country under pressure to develop economically, physically, and environmentally. Highly protected landscapes, both natural and composed, form the backdrop to historic seats of political power and wealth, while sites of intense modern productivity are neatly concealed behind natural veils.
Manor Lessons, the concluding volume of laba’s successful Teaching and Research in Architecture series, explores the lessons that can be learned from the history of the manorial system, whose forgotten feudalistic origins were once rooted in the idea of land not as private property, but as common ground.
- Untersucht die historische englische Grundherrschaft (Manorialism) auf mögliche Lehren für einen gemeinschaftlichen Grundbesitz im kapitalistischen, globalisierten Zeitalter
- Verdeutlicht die Konflikte, die sich aus dem strengem Schutz grosser Landflächen in Privateigentum und den heutigen Notwendigkeiten der ökonomischen und ökologischen Entwicklung eines bevölkerungsreichen Landes ergeben
- Visualisiert anhand von Karten, Grafiken und Fotografien neueste Rechercheergebnisse des Laboratoire Bâle (laba) der EPFL Lausanne
- Präsentiert Vorschläge für architektonische Interventionen der laba-Studierenden
- Investigates England’s historic Manorialism in search for lessons about communal land ownership in a globalized capitalist age
- Highlights the conflicts arising from the protection of vast privately owned stretches of land vs. the needs of a densely populated country in regard to ecological and economic development
- Visualizes recent research findings by EPFL’s Laboratory Basel (laba) in striking informative graphics, maps, and photographs
- Features proposals for architectural interventions by laba’s students
Autor*in
Harry Gugger
Themen in »Manor Lessons«
Land Boden Ecology Economy England Land use Landscape Ökologie Gemeinwohl Landbesitz Landschaft Architektur Common good Entwicklung Grundbesitz