Nadine Schütz is a sound architect. She lends a new dimension to urban landscapes thanks to sound installations and work on the acoustic environment. In this way, she highlights the role of sound in the sensory relationship of humans to their surroundings and in raising environmental awareness.
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Manon Denerier recently graduated from the interior design school École Camondo, receiving full honors for her exploratory work along the regional express railway line RER A. Shedding the functionalist logic of mobility (11 hours on foot instead of a 33-minute ride), she engaged in a sensory experience of a journey through “invisible cities,” proposing micro-amenities to raise their profile.
Landscape is not just a matter of shapes and colors. It also emanates from the sensitive perception of a sound environment, however urbanized it may be. This is what Sara el Samman defends in her diploma project, awarded by the Fédération Française du Paysage. Would La Défense be the same without the sound of heels on flagstones?
Through the example of Spots Berlin, where a real estate group attempts to promote an uninhabited office building—by means of an architectural installation—the communicative vocation of architecture is called into question. A building whose media facade becomes a symbol, a global shop window, displaying interventions by artists, but also its own image, moving beyond the frontiers of a city. Does it have the vocation to communicate, or to become one media among many? Between architectural and artistic alibi, the building distills within its function as media, a subjugated, yet sometimes quite vocal idea. Aurélien Gillier is a journalist, graphic designer and exhibitions curator.