Degree Zero in Architecture art the birch forest

the birch forest

In a city permeated by the cult of the sun and the counter-culture of the Beat Generation

continuing a line of thought first started by events like the Great Exhibition

to envisage its landscape

Degree Zero in Architecture art the birch forestOriginally borrowed from literary studies, the term degree zero has evolved, since the 1960s, into a familiar trope in architectural theory and criticism. First conceptualized in Roland Barthess seminal book, Le degr zro de lcriture, it has been deployed as a discursive and conceptual tool for articulating diverse architectural practicesprojectual, theoretical, speculative, critical, or academic. This edited volume, Degree Zero in Architecture,