fine ARTS 2010-2011 - The British School at Rome
fine ARTS 2010-2011 - The British School at Rome
fine ARTS 2010-2011 - The British School at Rome
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K<strong>at</strong>herine LapierreTrained architect specialized in Landscape study and architectural history and theory, K<strong>at</strong>herine Lapierre is developing aPhD research on self-built environments, and self-taught architectures and their rel<strong>at</strong>ions to the theme of follies. Fromthe most famous examples of this c<strong>at</strong>egory we can note: the Ideal Palace of postman Cheval, the shell garden of BodanLitnianski, the cabins and shelters of Richard Greaves in Beauce (Québec), and the Eben-Ezer Tower by Robert Garcetin Belgium.<strong>The</strong> sculpture house built and inhabited by Sappho Morissette in Québec was raised as a vessel. It was meant to flo<strong>at</strong>after the disaster th<strong>at</strong> predicted the apocalyptic visions of its builders. K<strong>at</strong>herine’s recent works on the theme of Folliesunderline the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of space without utilitarian ends, integr<strong>at</strong>ing the methods conceptions taken from thearchitectural field.28Fine Arts <strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong>
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