MANOR LESSONS
MANOR LESSONS
Publikation
Forschung,
2021
Jahrespublikation des Laboratoire Bâle der EPFL
Manor Lessons – Commons revisited
Herausgeber:
Harry Gugger
Amy Perkins
Sarah Barth
Augustin Clément
Alexandros Fotakis
Klappentext:
Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract apparatus of the capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership, and use of common resources, especially on an island that has experienced a long history of privatization stemming from enclosure.
Manor Lessons, the third investigation into what laba has termed “environmental objects,” looks at how the manor house can be used as a testing ground to reassess Britain’s complex and ongoing relationship with the countryside. As the most rural region of one of the more densely populated countries in Europe, the South West of England reflects all the absurdities of a globalized country under pressure, not only to develop its economy and infrastructure, but simultaneously to support and protect its environment. Highly protected landscapes, both natural and composed, serve as the backdrop to historic seats of political power, while sites of intense production are neatly concealed behind natural veils. This publication asks what lessons can be learned from the multi-layered history of the Manorial System, whose forgotten feudalistic origins were once rooted in the idea of the land not as private property but as common ground.
laba has been operating in Basel since September 2011 and is directed by Professor Harry Gugger. Manor Lessons is the twelfth and final volume in a series entitled [Place] Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture that documents laba’s academic work.
Fotos der Publikation: Juliette Fong
Grafik: Helen Ebert
Jahrespublikation des Laboratoire Bâle der EPFL
Manor Lessons – Commons revisited
Herausgeber:
Harry Gugger
Amy Perkins
Sarah Barth
Augustin Clément
Alexandros Fotakis
Klappentext:
Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract apparatus of the capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership, and use of common resources, especially on an island that has experienced a long history of privatization stemming from enclosure.
Manor Lessons, the third investigation into what laba has termed “environmental objects,” looks at how the manor house can be used as a testing ground to reassess Britain’s complex and ongoing relationship with the countryside. As the most rural region of one of the more densely populated countries in Europe, the South West of England reflects all the absurdities of a globalized country under pressure, not only to develop its economy and infrastructure, but simultaneously to support and protect its environment. Highly protected landscapes, both natural and composed, serve as the backdrop to historic seats of political power, while sites of intense production are neatly concealed behind natural veils. This publication asks what lessons can be learned from the multi-layered history of the Manorial System, whose forgotten feudalistic origins were once rooted in the idea of the land not as private property but as common ground.
laba has been operating in Basel since September 2011 and is directed by Professor Harry Gugger. Manor Lessons is the twelfth and final volume in a series entitled [Place] Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture that documents laba’s academic work.
Fotos der Publikation: Juliette Fong
Grafik: Helen Ebert
