1:33 & 1:2 – Architectural Tomography 2020-2024 (EPFL)
Tiphaine Abenia, Jo Taillieu
EPFL, 2025
€34,95
Beautifully designed publication. In the first 23 pages section you can tear off the pages so that the floor plans and drawings become readable.
Between 2020 and 2023, 974 students beginning their studies at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne embarked on their architectural journey by engaging in a 12-week spatial, constructive, and conceptual investigation within the architectural tomography course. The course, led by Tiphaine Abenia and Jo Taillieu and held in the LIF laboratory, resulted in the investigation of 44 houses over four years.
Architectural tomography, as a conceptual and operational device, has the capacity to reveal the spatial and constructive anatomy of a building, giving access to its grafity-fed morphology. It supports observation to get beyond the narrow limits of architecture read as an object, investigating its relational setting in a broader environment and anchoring it to the ground in all its thickness.
Main objects:
The act of drawing as an act of spatial and constructive investigation – forensic dimension.
Conducting architectural tomography to reveal the architecture anatomy and make visible inner spatial structures otherwise inaccessible to vision and experience.
Teaching architectural tomography as a tool that allows for contextualization in time and space; going beyond the narrow limits of architecture read as an object and giving access to an understanding of time by revealing stratification logics.
Two-dimensional sectional drawing as a crucial skill in architecture, an operative and critical lens to investigate situated architectures.
ISBN: 9789090404950
