Description du projet
Comprendre l’interdépendance dans l’architecture par le biais de la production de pierres
L’architecture est un domaine matériel, alors que son histoire tend à se concentrer sur l’influence des individus et des idées. Cette approche néglige l’importance des matériaux et de l’artisanat dans la création d’œuvres architecturales. La pierre, le matériau de construction le plus prisé, révèle la nature séquentielle de la production architecturale et l’importance de l’implication de la communauté. Le projet STONE-WORK, financé par le CER, se penche sur l’effort collectif et souligne que les bâtiments sont le fait d’actions cumulées de différents acteurs, de l’approvisionnement en matériaux à la fabrication. Le projet analysera la relation entre le matériau, la conception et l’exécution dans l’architecture et la production de pierre sur base de documents d’archives de l’architecture classique de la Grande-Bretagne et de l’Irlande du XVIIIe siècle. Les résultats du projet permettront une meilleure compréhension de l’interdépendance dans la production architecturale.
Objectif
STONE-WORK challenges the perception of architecture as a primarily conceptual activity by shifting focus from individual to collective achievement. Despite the emphatic materiality of architecture its history remains dominated by a sequential model which privileges the agency of individuals and ideas. STONE-WORK’s fundamental premise is that architecture results from a cumulative sequence of actions involving an array of actors, great and small. There can be no buildings without materials and no materials without those who procure, transport, and fashion them. How can design be related to the material from which it takes form and the skills which give it form? Though interdependence of systems and actors is a key scientific concept, it has had inadequate impact on the study of early modern architecture. Stone, the most valued building material of the period, offers a way into architectural process which forces us to include the broader community involved in the making of buildings. No other medium so fully encapsulates the sequential nature of architectural production involving a wide range of agents of varying skill and authority. Revealing stone’s hidden trajectory from quarry to wall, floor, column, and chimneypiece will probe the nexus of skills, techniques, and support mechanisms developed by communities in its sourcing, supply, and fashioning and the impact of these processes upon building activity. This cross-disciplinary research, combining the history of architecture and craft with geology, will produce the first holistic analysis of architecture and stone production, thereby interrogating the relationship of material, design, and execution. The prodigious classical architecture of Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth century, richly documented in untapped archival material, is an exemplary episode in monumental stone building which offers a meaningful, accessible, and feasible route into the complex problem of interdependence in architectural production.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
Irlande