The pursuit of lightness isn’t a new one. The ambition of lowering the amount of material used in construction started one century ago in the context of a shortage of housing and materials. With the urgency to build more homes and the requirement to use fewer resources, a number of pioneers are inventing alternative architecture approaches. They are Richard Buckminster Fuller, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Albert Frey, Lawrence Kocher, Walter Gropius, Konrad Wachsmann, Jean Prouvé, Charles and Ray Eames, Makoto Masuzawa, Jorn Utzon, and today Hans Walter Müller, Renzo Piano or Shigeru Ban. Their quest now takes on a new meaning that the book reveals through analysis and redrawing. Each of the thirty architectures, decomposed following a protocol developed by Philippe Rizzotti Architecte and the IBI laboratory of ETH Zürich, reveals its potential. Economy of means, rapid construction, modularity, flexibility, and upgradability... these inherent qualities of lightweight construction are combined with our current ecological ambitions relating to frugality.
Published by Pavillon de l’Arsenal Under the direction of Philippe Rizzotti, architect
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