Baak Studio

In our contemporary world, it is enough to know that construction in cities is decided through technocratic procedures, in offices and on plans, without taking into account, in the least, the way in which human beings are related to things by their history, by their carnal body to understand the malaise of our cities and our architectures. And nothing shows it, moreover, better than a reflection on the house and its way of being built. Heidegger rightly objected to the proponents of the Athens Charter that the house is not a simple container in which to live. Today, we are seeing this technical dream of the machine-house come back to life through the ecological habitat, which we think of in a systemic way as a place for the circulation of energies: a well-calculated solution to environmental problems. However, a dwelling can indeed be a very successful living machine, it can be a sophisticated and very comfortable shelter, without however being a real house. In short, for us, an a...