Lecture: Ways to Unbuild

Speaker: Marc Leschelier
Date: 22 November 2019
Time: 18.30
Place: santralistanbul, Kazandibi, KD6-Ground Floor

The lecture  is organized by İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture.

The lecture will simultaneously present two projects by the French architect Marc Leschelier, diametrically opposed and yet linked by their marginality in relation to the architectural practice. The first project is an archive of texts and manifestos about an "architecture without architecture" and the idea of designing without having the intention to build. The second project, on the other hand, is not an architecture of the mind but an architecture of physical relationships where the constructive process has become more important than the final result. This lecture will bring together two approaches that explore the margins of the discipline to discover new architectural practices.

Presentation will be held in English.

Marc Leschelier:

Marc Leschelier (1984) is an architect and educator. He’s the founder of the Unbuilt Archive, an open-source archive specialized in radical architecture’s texts and manifestos. He lives and works between Milan and Paris.

During the year 2017/2018, he was a fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome. His architectural projects, carried out in three different mediums - actions, models and prototypes - lead to the development of an architectural language by an incrementation of experiments. Thus, the work explores the possibility of a spontaneous formation of architecture through direct operations and processes. Recent works - such as Worksite I,II & III - were performances of spontaneous building. Those experimentations produced prototypes to be gathered in one single building one day. Marc is at the moment designing a building in Bordeaux and he’ll build next September a Pavilion in the parc of a castle in Burgundy.

He has participated to several symposiums at EHESS Paris, Foundation Hartung Bergman or held public lectures at Villa Medicis. He received in 2011 the research grant from the Le Corbusier Foundation. He’s at the moment working on a book about Raimund Abraham based on a film by Jonas Mekas to be published