par Raport, Lisa 
Référence The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Field, Taylor and Francis, page (27-38)
Publication Publié, 2025-01
Référence The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Field, Taylor and Francis, page (27-38)
Publication Publié, 2025-01
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| Résumé : | Both French anthropology of space and English architectural anthropology intersect disciplines and emphasize the relevance of architectural drawing for the purpose of studying dwellings. Although they do not interact, crossing the linguistic barrier unveils a double benefit. in French, the relevé ethno-architectural, a meticulous drawing technique for dwellings, is reinterpreted, focusing less on the final result and more on the process of drawing. in English, the translation to architectural survey does not really fit. Relever means something like a combination of to note and notice, to discover and measure, to collect and reconstruct, all at once. It is a particular method used by architects to engage with the existing world, which I combine with the anthropological approach of learning, and drawing with the inhabitants. This method emerged from my encounter with a transnational family that comes from the geographically remote Rif, Amazigh highlands in northern Morocco. The anthropological relevés I made there counter the common assumption of the house being a fixed and anchored place and reveal how it is a work-in-progress, transformed by transnational networks. At the same time, they dismantle the persisting structuralist notion about the Amazigh house being a closed microcosm by showing how both inner and outer spaces are inhabited and shaped mutually. |
