Rendering of Etienne Louis Boullee’s Cenotaph for Newton by Antonio Voto
1769 G.B. PIRANESI - DIVERSI MANIERE D'ADORNARE I CAMMINI Version : [IT]
1796 ÉTIENNE-LOUIS BOULLÉE - ESSAI SUR L'ART Version : [FR]
1701 ETIENNE-LOUIS BOULLÉE'S NOTEBOOK Version : [FR]
1801 FRANCESCO COLONNA - SONGE DE POLIPHILE - TOME 1 Version : [FR]
1801 FRANCESCO COLONNA - SONGE DE POLIPHILE - TOME 2 Version : [FR]
1919 BRUNO TAUT - FIRST LETTER OF THE CRYSTAL CHAIN Version : [FR]
1954 JOHN HEJDUK - NINE SQUARE GRID PROBLEM Version : [EN]
1959 FREDERICK KIESLER - HAZARD AND THE ENDLESS HOUSE Version : [EN/GE]
1963 JOHN HEJDUK - THREE PROJECTS INTRODUCTION Version : [EN]
1967 ALDO ROSSI - INTRODUCTION À BOULLÉE Version : [FR]
1968 HANS HOLLEIN - EVERYTHING IS ARCHITECTURE Version : [EN]
1976 O.M. UNGERS - MORPHOLOGIE - CITY METAPHORS Version : [EN]
1976 MANFREDO TAFURI - PIRANESI : L'UTOPIE NÉGATIVE (...) Version : [FR]
1978 BERNARD TSCHUMI - ARCHITECTURAL MANIFESTOS Version : [EN]
1971 DICK HIGGINS / WOLF VOSTELL - FANTASTIC Version : [EN]
1980 MANFREDO TAFURI - THE SPHERE AND THE LABYRINTH Version : [EN]
1981 BERNARD TSCHUMI - THE MANHATTAN TRANSCRIPTS Version : [EN]
1992 LUIGI PELLEGRIN - WHERE DOES THE SIGN RISE ? Version : [EN]
1996 RAIMUND ABRAHAM - THE REALITY OF THE UNBUILT Version : [EN]
2005 SIMON SADLER - ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTURE Version : [EN]
2008 PHILIPPE RAHM - ARCHITECTURE METEOROLOGIQUE Version : [FR]/[EN]
2012 LUCA GALOFARO / IAN+ - NO MANIFESTO Version : [EN]
2019 DAN GRAHAM - HOMES FOR AMERICA REWIND Version : [EN]
2019 DAN GRAHAM - INTERVIEW WITH DAN QUINTESSA Version : [EN]
ABOUT
Unbuilt Archive is an archive of texts about the practice of architecture without architecture. This project aims to constitute, thanks to the contribution of specialists, the written and theoretical history of a thought that distinguishes the architectural project from its physical realization. The objective is to find the founding, manifest or symptomatic writings of an approach that does not consider the built form as the only medium for architecture. The current emergence of virtual reality validates even more strongly the hypothesis that it is possible to produce architecture without building it. This new culture echoes an older history of non-architecture that must now be reconstituted.
Unbuilt Archive is an open-source tool to study this phenomenon. It will help to understand what has led architecture to distance itself from its original purpose and to approach architecture more broadly as a form of thought. Archiving will necessarily refer to what has been called Paper Architecture or Radical Architecture, but it actually defines, in a deeper sense, an architectural approach that is independent of the production of buildings. The project brings together the material for a series of symposiums planned for the coming years.
The project is the initiative of Marc Leschelier (1984), architect and teacher. Marc has participated to several symposiums at EHESS Paris, Foundation Hartung Bergman or held public lectures at Villa Medicis in Rome where he was a fellow during the years of 2017 and 2018. The principle behind Unbuilt Archive is the same as that which appears in his architectural work, which is to constitute an architectural approach that is independent of the production of buildings. Through the development of a chaotic and plastic language, he's carring the architectural project in three different medias : protocols writing, architectural models and construction of mock-ups to end to a global reorganization of the construction field. Marc Leschelier received in 2011 the research grant from the Le Corbusier Foundation. He's now living, teaching and working between Milan and Paris after having worked in the architecture offices of Christian Kerez, Philippe Rahm and SANAA. He's at the moment working on a book about Raimund Abraham based on a film by Jonas Mekas to be published by NERO editions.