Parution du livre Degree Zero in Architecture: Form, Value, Authorship
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hortence is the research centre for Architectural History, Theory and Criticism of the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles
This volume, edited by Lyna Bourouiba and Wouter Van Acker, examines how the idea of degree zero, by entangling the notions of form, value, and authorship, has catalyzed—and continues to deepen— critical reflections on architectural practices and their formalizations.
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Originally derived from literary studies, the term “degree zero” has evolved into a familiar trope in architectural theory and criticism since the 1960s. First conceptualized in Roland Barthes’s seminal book, Le degré zéro de l’écriture (1953), it has been appropriated as a discursive and conceptual tool in diverse architectural practices—theoretical, design-oriented, speculative, critical, or academic. This edited volume, Degree Zero in Architecture, examines how the idea of degree zero, by entangling the notions of form, value, and authorship, has catalyzed—and continues to deepen— critical reflections on architectural practices and their formalizations. The fifteen essays in this collection interrogate architectural forms and forms of architectural knowledge, exploring the set of values they embody within the nature of the forms they shape.