MBL Architectes
Benjamin Lafore & Sébastien Martinez-Barat architects portrait, Photo credit Nicolas Wagne
MBL Architects is a Paris-based architecture and research office founded by Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien MartinezBarat.
1. Yellow vest protesters on the Frech roundabouts
Those suburbs and territories, neither city, nor countryside, become the spaces of new political sensibilities. The roundabout, as a new kind of public space, empowers political issues and forms of life.
2. The death of Charles Jencks
The American theorist and architectural historian was the first to use the term postmodern in 1977. He compared this style to “a double decaffeinated ristretto.” His method of classification and diagrammatic way of thinking are still relevant today, the Po-Mo moment far less so.
3. The Jade Eco Park in Taïwan
A park by Philip Rahm architects and Catherine Mosbach landscape designer. A site of contemporary follies which deals with climatic issues and where architecture disappears behind atmospheric effects. A first attempt at anthropocene architectural style.