Manor Lessons

Commons Revisited. Teaching and Research in Architecture

Harry Gugger, Sarah Barth, Augustin Clément , Alexandros Fotakis

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English

Park Books
03 March 2021

Theory of architecture; Architectural structure & design; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Palaces, chateaux, country houses

Series: Teaching and Research in Architecture

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 such as land. This is especially true in Britain with its long history of privatisation stemming from land enclosure. The latest research campaign of Laboratory Basel (laba), a satellite studio of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, investigated the English manor house and how it can serve as a testing ground to reassess Britain's complex and ongoing relationship with the countryside.

The south-west of England, the most rural region of one of the more densely populated countries in Europe, reflects all the absurdities of a globalised country under pressure to develop economically, physically and environmentally. Highly protected landscapes, both natural and composed, form the backdrop to historic seats of political power and wealth, whilst sites of intense modern productivity are neatly concealed behind natural veils. Manor Lessons: Commons Revisited, the concluding volume of laba's Teaching and Research in Architecture series, explores the lessons that can be learned from the compound 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.

AUTHORS: Harry Gugger is professor of architecture and director of Laba, a Basel-based satellite studio of the EPFL's School of Architecture, where Sarah Barth and Amy Perkins are working as research assistants, and Augustin Clement and Alexandros Fotakis as teaching assistants.

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An urbanistic investigation of the English manor house and how the Manorial System can serve as testing ground for a modern understanding of landownership in the capitalist age .

Visualises recent research findings of EPFL's Laboratory Basel (laba) in striking informative graphics, maps, and photographs .

Features proposals for architectural interventions by laba's students

317 colour, 45 b/w illustrations

Edited by: Harry Gugger, Sarah Barth, Augustin Clément, Alexandros Fotakis, Amy Perkins
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 310mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 954g
ISBN: 9783038601968
ISBN 10: 3038601969
Series: Teaching and Research in Architecture
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 03 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harry Gugger is professor of architecture and director of Laba, a Basel-based satellite studio of the EPFL’s School of Architecture, where Sarah Barth and Amy Perkins are working as research assistants, and Augustin Clément and Alexandros Fotakis as teaching assistants.