A Continent to Be Shaped – 2020 #2

Lou Rais – A Continent to Be Shaped – 2020 #2

“A Continent to Be Shaped” is a journey through alternative teaching in architecture. The book is an atlas from the archives of EASA, an alternative school created by students in Liverpool in 1981. Forty years of workshop data from authors across the continent have been systematically edited in a non-chronological journey, revealing the students’ local ideologies and issues. No architecture is shown in order to stimulate the reader’s imagination, the archive is revived and extended with laser-cut silhouettes then modulated into an umpteenth construction.

Diploma project (2020) by Lou Rais

A Continent to Be Shaped – Lou Rais
A Continent to Be Shaped – Lou Rais
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A Continent to Be Shaped – Lou Rais
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