Architecture as the Long-Term Layering of Small Interventions. An Interview with Landscape Architect Georges Descombes
How can we grasp an architecture that refuses its own visibility? During his June lecture organized by the KRUH association, Swiss landscape architect Georges Descombes opened up a perspective on design in which the architectural project becomes a continuation of already existing structures – the landscape, social relations, and the memory of a place. The interventions are subtle, temporally dispersed, and often unspectacular – and yet they transform the way society understands its environment.
