Groundscapes - Other Topographies / Dominique Perrault

In this book, the architect Dominique Perrault presents his thoughts on the architecture of the "Groundscape". An idea, a concept, the architect has been exploring and experimenting with for many years in his projects and through his fictions. "It is a work on shaping reality, through subterranean architecture, where is not a question of living but of marking and carving out places for urban life in the earth, this epidermis open to the sky". An engaged architect, an engaged style In Groundscapes - Other Topographies, Dominique Perrault takes a firm position. He expresses in writing his commitment to this position, presented in the form of a dialog and exchanges of ideas, which are accompanied by a rich and erudite iconography readers will discover throughout the book. The fruit of a series of interviews with Frédéric Migayrou, in this book he explores a range of questions raised by the "Groundscape" (from fiction as method for creation to issues of ecology, engineering, urban planning and geography) and suggests possible ways of tackling them. Thus the architect traces the contours of a new form of urban living; a universe of possibilities, of highly innovative places that either exist, are waiting to be created, or still to be imagined.