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La revue ABE Journal est dédiée à l’histoire de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme hors d’Europe. Elle s’intéresse aux aspects coloniaux et postcoloniaux du monde bâti depuis le XIXe siècle, ainsi qu’aux réseaux professionnels, aux médias, aux doctrines et aux modèles circulant à partir de l’Europe et vers celle-ci. Éditée par le laboratoire InVisu (CNRS/INHA), cette revue encourage la diversité des points de vue et des méthodes, en particulier les perspectives interculturelles et transnationales.

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Material Constraints

Contraintes matérielles

“Human beings swim in an ocean of materials.” With this sentence, anthropologist Tim Ingold announced his crusade against the abstract concept of “materiality” that had taken the academic world by storm. In his text Materials against Materiality, Ingold argues how the discrepancy between mind and matter has clouded thinking in social sciences and humanities, necessitating the concept of agency—that “magic mind-dust”—to set things into motion. However, if we think of the world only as matter, “bringing things to life is a matter not of adding a sprinkling of agency, but of restoring the generative fluxes of the world of materials in which they came into being and continue to subsist.” This thematic dossier aims to do exactly that: to “restore the generative fluxes of the world of materials” in which buildings came into being, focusing on the very real constraints these materials posed in their production, processing, and distribution.

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