This is the keynote lecture following the MArch Jury for the Landscape Urbanism Taught Postgraduate Programme.
Exactly fifty years ago, Rem Koolhaas launched his career as an architect with Exodus, or Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, a tale for a future of metropolitan congestion. Nowadays, environmental concerns might well lead us to reframe the inspiration of his tale into envisioning a rather different future or adventure of dispersion, applied to (re)building worlds.
Initially trained in philosophy, SÉBASTIEN MAROT holds a PhD in History. He is a Professor in Environmental History at the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires (Université Paris Est) and guest professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. In 2019, he curated an exhibition called Taking the Country’s Side: Agriculture and Architecture for the Lisbon Architecture Triennal, that has been travelling since.
