Books by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Begun in 1966, Superstudio’s journey led its members to reflect on ways of inhabiting a ‘round an... more Begun in 1966, Superstudio’s journey led its members to reflect on ways of inhabiting a ‘round and rotating’ world. Superstudio Migrazioni offers a new perspective on the group’s œuvre, described as ‘radical’ by Germano Celant. More than an exhibition catalogue, Superstudio Migrazioni proposes three parallel yet complementary explorations – through texts and interviews, through images and through archives – of the collective journey that pushed architecture to its limits. At first ‘super’ and fundamentally realistic, and adopting consumption and production mechanisms in an ironic and critical manner, Superstudio’s architecture evolved to encompass ‘things, the body, the Earth’, before dissolving all materiality, retaining only a symbolic dimension and blending with life itself.
In offering a rich selection of images, works and documents, Superstudio Migrazioni aims at allowing for multiple cross-readings and interpretations of the group’s intellectual, architectural and poetical migrations. The first book gathers critical essays and interviews with three leading architectural figures of the past 50 years who were in close contact with Superstudio; retracing their personal and theoretical careers, these different voices show the extent of the influence of what had nevertheless been a marginal group, and bring to life these ‘journeys into the realm of reason’. The second book proposes a thematic voyage through the work: a rich iconography is presented through a series of notions taken from Superstudio’s vocabulary, revealing – beyond the unified history incarnated in a few quasi-iconic photocollages – the richness of the projects and images produced throughout the group’s active years. The last book presents previously unpublished letters from the archives of Adolfo Natalini. The exchanges between the members of Superstudio and the letters written to leading architectural figures of the second half of the twentieth century, paint a collective autobiography in which, through fragments, architecture and life are seen to coincide more and more.
Peer reviewed articles by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Contour, 2020
Published in Contour n. 5 "When Tools Become Instruments: Masterful Articulations in Architecture... more Published in Contour n. 5 "When Tools Become Instruments: Masterful Articulations in Architecture and the Arts", edited by Michael R. Doyle (U. Laval) and Diana Alvarez-Marin (ETH Zurich).
Contribution in books by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Superstudio Migrazioni, 2020
La Bibliothèque nationale de France. Portrait d'un projet, 1988 - 1998, 2018
Chasing the City, Models for Extra-Urban Investigations, 2018
Edited by Joshua M. Nason and Jeffrey S. Nesbit Taylor
Articles by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Plan Libre #175, 1 image / 1000 mots, 2020
AD Special Issue: Discrete: Reappraising the Digital in Architecture, 2019
Edited by Gilles Retsin
The Architecture Museum Effect, OASE # 99, Journal for Architecture , 2017
The Architecture Museum Effect/ De effecten van architectuurmusea OASE # 99 F r Ac c e n t r e , ... more The Architecture Museum Effect/ De effecten van architectuurmusea OASE # 99 F r Ac c e n t r e , P l At e Au o F A rc h it e c t u r A l e x P e r i M e n tAt i o n / F r Ac c e n t r e , P l At F o r M Voo r A rc h it e c to n i s c h e x P e r i M e n t e M M A n u e l l e c h i A P P o n e -P i r i ou FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, exhibition 'Monolithes ou l'architecture en suspens (1950-2010)' , 2010 / FrAc centre-Val de loire, orléans, tentoonstelling 'Monolithes ou l'architecture en suspens (
Spatium, L'architecture comme laps de temps, 2017
Conference presentation and abstracts by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Sophistication Conference #3 "Copia and Copiousness. Circuitous Articulations that Matter'", 2019... more Sophistication Conference #3 "Copia and Copiousness. Circuitous Articulations that Matter'", 2019, ATTP ETHZ
Moderation of the session "All, and then Some"
Sophistication Conference #2 "In 'lieu' of Statements, 'Articulations'", 2018, ATTP ETHZ
Modera... more Sophistication Conference #2 "In 'lieu' of Statements, 'Articulations'", 2018, ATTP ETHZ
Moderation of the session "Mnemotechnics"
Scaffolds 2018, Opens Encounters with Society, Art and Architecture, International Symposium, 2018
Randomness presents a limit for human knowledge. As such, it enters in contradiction with the mod... more Randomness presents a limit for human knowledge. As such, it enters in contradiction with the modern definition of architecture as an art of measure and order, operating through quantification contrathe fuzziness and complexity of the physical world. When it comes to buildings, it is undisputable that architecture should provide shelter against all contingencies, anticipating aleatory physical phenomena. However, today’s insistence on the notion of risk – be it ecological or financial – and on the necessity to limit or suppress it, presents architecture with a different issue, that articulates knowledge and control as two sides of the same coin. The simultaneous increase in the quantity of available data and the finesse of probabilistic models produces a refined understanding of the world, as the capacity to analyse and simulate complex systems promises to reduce the unpredictability of phenomena. The computational power at hand nurtures the idea of a potentially absolute mastery of parameters, be they physical or human, thus allowing exercising control throughout spheres and scales, through self-managed systems of predictions, as “smart” urbanism exemplifies.
How can randomness and unpredictability be understood as objective chance rather than risk? What architectural mechanisms can allow dealing with life, understood as contingent, without capturing it? Hence, how can architecture consider randomness as a generative principle, not against, but connected to computational procedures? This paper will articulate the notion of randomness with that of architectural invention. It will do so by discriminating amongst the different uncertainties – epistemic and aleatory – while discussing understandings of randomness as a creative principle, through the work of Poincaré and Monod. Focusing on artistic and architectural works from the 20th and 21st centuries, it will consider randomness not in dialectic opposition to order, but as a poetic questioning of the immutability of the norm and of predefined architectural categories.
Teaching documents by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Seminar held for the Department of Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, TU Wien, Summe... more Seminar held for the Department of Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, TU Wien, Summer Semester 2020.
“Poetry is what makes home-living” wrote Superstudio, the “radical” Italian group of architects (1966-78) best known for its project of the Monumento Continuo (Continuous Monument) and its photomontages, which iconicity still remains unequalled. Then, like today, the context appeared unfitted for poetry: as the narrative of the crisis appeared to call for forms of reasonability, the emerging technologies inaugurated novel relations to the world, that broke with previously established notions of order. Beyond appearing as an unnecessary luxury, poetry – with its fixed metric matrix – must have also seemed anachronistic, in a time that celebrated expressions of individuality. Yet, Superstudio held on to “systems of measure”, in the form of intriguing objects they described as mirrors and images, and which they imagined could populate the world.
With Superstudio, we can start to think about measure and its capacity to establish not only an objective relation to the world, but also collective, poetic manners to inhabit it. The meter is what provides the objective “architecture” of poetry; it establishes the quantitative basement upon which language can evoke and manifest myriads of shared meanings, narrations and imageries. It bridges abstract and rational thought with sensation. Far from being immutable, this meter – as any other conventional system of measure – has historically been subjected to evolutions and crisis, in the face of the transformations of the written language.
This seminar will articulate the question of measure through a parallel between poetry and architecture, by means of a close reading of texts by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and of the texts, images and works of Superstudio. In an attempt to release this exploration from any technocratic perspective, these texts will be contextualised historically and, most importantly, will be enriched by the parallel exploration of different lines of thought. This seminar will attempt to think of the conservation of the possibility of a poetic dwelling be beyond the apparent dissolution of the meter. Architecture, in its relation to poetry, might then appear as the discipline capable of aggregating, articulating and stabilizing the multitude of numerical flickers that compose our computational condition.
Research projects by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Contribution in exhibition catalogs by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Naturalizing Architecture, ArchiLab 2013 , 2013
Contributions to the Naturalizing Architecture, ArchiLab 2013 catalog
Exhibition texts by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Invitée à présenter à l’automne une série de petits volumes architecturaux réalisés par impressio... more Invitée à présenter à l’automne une série de petits volumes architecturaux réalisés par impression 3D, Anne-Valérie Gasc a transposé ses recherches à échelle monumentale lors d’une résidence de création de deux mois dans la Grande halle.
La réalisation de son projet mobilisant des outils d’assistance robotique, elle a été accompagnée par par Jean-Pierre Merlet et Yves Papegay, chercheurs de l’équipe Héphaïstos à l’Inria. Emmanuelle
Chiappone-Piriou, commissaire de l’exposition, a croisé les paroles de l’artiste et du chercheur lors d’un entretien réalisé un mois avant l’inauguration de l’exposition.
Text for Anne-Valérie Gasc's exhibition "Monuments" (2018) as part of the project "Les larmes du ... more Text for Anne-Valérie Gasc's exhibition "Monuments" (2018) as part of the project "Les larmes du prince", at the Contemporary art centre Les Tanneries.
Other by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Edited by Vera Bühlmann, Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Georg Fassl (ATTP, Vienna), 2017
Quantum. The unit of emitted energy. Circulating and translating between all things tangible and... more Quantum. The unit of emitted energy. Circulating and translating between all things tangible and graspable. Quantum Words on Architectonic Objects are diligent articulations of ordinary things. They are distinctive for the architect´s ability to offer a richness of detail and insight within no less than five hundred and no more than a thousand words of print. Short enough to be read while drinking an espresso and significant enough to delight the reader with the accepted diversion.
Papers by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Université de Lille, 2020
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Books by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
In offering a rich selection of images, works and documents, Superstudio Migrazioni aims at allowing for multiple cross-readings and interpretations of the group’s intellectual, architectural and poetical migrations. The first book gathers critical essays and interviews with three leading architectural figures of the past 50 years who were in close contact with Superstudio; retracing their personal and theoretical careers, these different voices show the extent of the influence of what had nevertheless been a marginal group, and bring to life these ‘journeys into the realm of reason’. The second book proposes a thematic voyage through the work: a rich iconography is presented through a series of notions taken from Superstudio’s vocabulary, revealing – beyond the unified history incarnated in a few quasi-iconic photocollages – the richness of the projects and images produced throughout the group’s active years. The last book presents previously unpublished letters from the archives of Adolfo Natalini. The exchanges between the members of Superstudio and the letters written to leading architectural figures of the second half of the twentieth century, paint a collective autobiography in which, through fragments, architecture and life are seen to coincide more and more.
Peer reviewed articles by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Contribution in books by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Articles by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Conference presentation and abstracts by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Moderation of the session "All, and then Some"
Moderation of the session "Mnemotechnics"
How can randomness and unpredictability be understood as objective chance rather than risk? What architectural mechanisms can allow dealing with life, understood as contingent, without capturing it? Hence, how can architecture consider randomness as a generative principle, not against, but connected to computational procedures? This paper will articulate the notion of randomness with that of architectural invention. It will do so by discriminating amongst the different uncertainties – epistemic and aleatory – while discussing understandings of randomness as a creative principle, through the work of Poincaré and Monod. Focusing on artistic and architectural works from the 20th and 21st centuries, it will consider randomness not in dialectic opposition to order, but as a poetic questioning of the immutability of the norm and of predefined architectural categories.
Teaching documents by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
“Poetry is what makes home-living” wrote Superstudio, the “radical” Italian group of architects (1966-78) best known for its project of the Monumento Continuo (Continuous Monument) and its photomontages, which iconicity still remains unequalled. Then, like today, the context appeared unfitted for poetry: as the narrative of the crisis appeared to call for forms of reasonability, the emerging technologies inaugurated novel relations to the world, that broke with previously established notions of order. Beyond appearing as an unnecessary luxury, poetry – with its fixed metric matrix – must have also seemed anachronistic, in a time that celebrated expressions of individuality. Yet, Superstudio held on to “systems of measure”, in the form of intriguing objects they described as mirrors and images, and which they imagined could populate the world.
With Superstudio, we can start to think about measure and its capacity to establish not only an objective relation to the world, but also collective, poetic manners to inhabit it. The meter is what provides the objective “architecture” of poetry; it establishes the quantitative basement upon which language can evoke and manifest myriads of shared meanings, narrations and imageries. It bridges abstract and rational thought with sensation. Far from being immutable, this meter – as any other conventional system of measure – has historically been subjected to evolutions and crisis, in the face of the transformations of the written language.
This seminar will articulate the question of measure through a parallel between poetry and architecture, by means of a close reading of texts by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and of the texts, images and works of Superstudio. In an attempt to release this exploration from any technocratic perspective, these texts will be contextualised historically and, most importantly, will be enriched by the parallel exploration of different lines of thought. This seminar will attempt to think of the conservation of the possibility of a poetic dwelling be beyond the apparent dissolution of the meter. Architecture, in its relation to poetry, might then appear as the discipline capable of aggregating, articulating and stabilizing the multitude of numerical flickers that compose our computational condition.
Research projects by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Contribution in exhibition catalogs by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Exhibition texts by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
La réalisation de son projet mobilisant des outils d’assistance robotique, elle a été accompagnée par par Jean-Pierre Merlet et Yves Papegay, chercheurs de l’équipe Héphaïstos à l’Inria. Emmanuelle
Chiappone-Piriou, commissaire de l’exposition, a croisé les paroles de l’artiste et du chercheur lors d’un entretien réalisé un mois avant l’inauguration de l’exposition.
Other by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
Papers by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou
In offering a rich selection of images, works and documents, Superstudio Migrazioni aims at allowing for multiple cross-readings and interpretations of the group’s intellectual, architectural and poetical migrations. The first book gathers critical essays and interviews with three leading architectural figures of the past 50 years who were in close contact with Superstudio; retracing their personal and theoretical careers, these different voices show the extent of the influence of what had nevertheless been a marginal group, and bring to life these ‘journeys into the realm of reason’. The second book proposes a thematic voyage through the work: a rich iconography is presented through a series of notions taken from Superstudio’s vocabulary, revealing – beyond the unified history incarnated in a few quasi-iconic photocollages – the richness of the projects and images produced throughout the group’s active years. The last book presents previously unpublished letters from the archives of Adolfo Natalini. The exchanges between the members of Superstudio and the letters written to leading architectural figures of the second half of the twentieth century, paint a collective autobiography in which, through fragments, architecture and life are seen to coincide more and more.
Moderation of the session "All, and then Some"
Moderation of the session "Mnemotechnics"
How can randomness and unpredictability be understood as objective chance rather than risk? What architectural mechanisms can allow dealing with life, understood as contingent, without capturing it? Hence, how can architecture consider randomness as a generative principle, not against, but connected to computational procedures? This paper will articulate the notion of randomness with that of architectural invention. It will do so by discriminating amongst the different uncertainties – epistemic and aleatory – while discussing understandings of randomness as a creative principle, through the work of Poincaré and Monod. Focusing on artistic and architectural works from the 20th and 21st centuries, it will consider randomness not in dialectic opposition to order, but as a poetic questioning of the immutability of the norm and of predefined architectural categories.
“Poetry is what makes home-living” wrote Superstudio, the “radical” Italian group of architects (1966-78) best known for its project of the Monumento Continuo (Continuous Monument) and its photomontages, which iconicity still remains unequalled. Then, like today, the context appeared unfitted for poetry: as the narrative of the crisis appeared to call for forms of reasonability, the emerging technologies inaugurated novel relations to the world, that broke with previously established notions of order. Beyond appearing as an unnecessary luxury, poetry – with its fixed metric matrix – must have also seemed anachronistic, in a time that celebrated expressions of individuality. Yet, Superstudio held on to “systems of measure”, in the form of intriguing objects they described as mirrors and images, and which they imagined could populate the world.
With Superstudio, we can start to think about measure and its capacity to establish not only an objective relation to the world, but also collective, poetic manners to inhabit it. The meter is what provides the objective “architecture” of poetry; it establishes the quantitative basement upon which language can evoke and manifest myriads of shared meanings, narrations and imageries. It bridges abstract and rational thought with sensation. Far from being immutable, this meter – as any other conventional system of measure – has historically been subjected to evolutions and crisis, in the face of the transformations of the written language.
This seminar will articulate the question of measure through a parallel between poetry and architecture, by means of a close reading of texts by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and of the texts, images and works of Superstudio. In an attempt to release this exploration from any technocratic perspective, these texts will be contextualised historically and, most importantly, will be enriched by the parallel exploration of different lines of thought. This seminar will attempt to think of the conservation of the possibility of a poetic dwelling be beyond the apparent dissolution of the meter. Architecture, in its relation to poetry, might then appear as the discipline capable of aggregating, articulating and stabilizing the multitude of numerical flickers that compose our computational condition.
La réalisation de son projet mobilisant des outils d’assistance robotique, elle a été accompagnée par par Jean-Pierre Merlet et Yves Papegay, chercheurs de l’équipe Héphaïstos à l’Inria. Emmanuelle
Chiappone-Piriou, commissaire de l’exposition, a croisé les paroles de l’artiste et du chercheur lors d’un entretien réalisé un mois avant l’inauguration de l’exposition.