Collaborations 12 April 2017 AA Retro: Roland Barthes, Semiotics and Urbanism Introducing a new AA Retro cycle, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui looks back on an essay written by Roland Barthes in 1971, Sémiologie et urbanisme, which traced a semiotic outline of urban space. According to the author, space has always been significant, not only urban space but also human space in general. « A world map drawn by Herodotus is constructed like a language, ...More about
Architecture 5 April 2017 AA Retro: Community Education in the Montreal Metro Montreal’s underground city has always given way to fascination and ...More about
Architecture 6 January 2017 AA Retro: A ‘synthetic Arcadia‘ for La Villette Park In 1982, the French State was looking to transform 55 ...More about
Architecture 18 August 2016 AA Retro: holidays in Beg-Meil, 1966 In the late 1950s in France, the democratisation of leisure ...More about
Architecture 11 August 2016 AA Retro: Ricardo Bofill’s Red Wall In 1972, the June-July issue of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui is dedicated ...More about
Architecture 2 June 2016 AA Retro: the Louvre’s pyramid in 1987 Designed by Ieoh Ming Pei (Pritzker Prize 1983) the Louvre’s ...More about
Architecture 26 May 2016 AA Retro: Venice Biennale, 16 years ago 16 years ago, in 2000, the 7th edition of the ...More about
Architecture 3 May 2016 AA Retro: the Halles counter-proposals Located Paris 1st district, Les Halles – originally a food-market ...More about
