There is no architecture without hierarchy. LAN asserts the primacy of form “as the primary creative act on which everything built is based.” What has ensued is remarkable: a consistent corpus of explicit geometries, cubes, cylinders, prisms... These precise volumes, often blank and sometimes altered, mark and organize, signal and establish resemblances. Their presence structures a variety of contemporary landscapes. Their stated monumentality renews a dialogue with liquid urban and familiar conditions. The corpus of architectures collected in this volume were designed between 2002 and 2018: each one challenges the very medium as well as its scope...
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