Dominique Rouillard – Actar Publishers

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Architect Dplg, PhD in Art History, Dominique Rouillard is founding member of Architecture Action sarl, office for architecture and urban design. She is scientific director of LIAT (Laboratoire, Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire), research laboratory habilitated by the Office of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research under the Direction of Architecture and Civil Heritage (BRAUP-DAPA). She is member of the National Historical Monuments Commission.
Dominique Rouillard is a tenured professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (ENSAPM), and adjunct professor at AMUR masters program (Architecture and Urban Planning Project Management), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. She has been visiting professor in different international universities, and at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale of Lausanne in 2008.
Consultant for various exhibitions at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris (Les années 50, La Ville, Archigram), her researches are focused on immediate history of contemporary architecture and infrastructures.

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Architecture and Dystopia

Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard and othersAs a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias

Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard, Marco Biraghi, Marie Theres Stauffer, Maddalena Scimemi, Simon Sadler, Massimiliano Savorra, Anthony Vidler As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still resistant to the penetration of modern architecture, such as Superstudio and Archizoom’s Florence. Their model, though exhausted in the space of experimentation, went on to inspire a generation of architects, from the High Tech movement to Rem Koolhaas, who sought to employ the paradigm of dystopia as both a visionary and a constructive method, one which could operate on the architecture of late capitalism and generate unexpected possibilities for urban planning. In the light

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