After closing the
Concrete work. An investigation in quicksand
, we surprise ourselves by no longer looking at the buildings we see while walking in the street in the same way.
The realization is violent. Concrete is everywhere in our lives. We don't even realize it anymore. It still remains synonymous with modernity in our minds. Whereas in times of global warming, the production of a ton of cement is equivalent to a Paris-New York flight in terms of pollution. Today, no one can really escape this material, which is quite magical in itself, which emerged at the dawn of the 20th century, to unleash the creativity of legendary architects such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Oscar Niemeyer. This is exactly what Alia Bengana, a young architect born in Algiers, thought when in 2011, having just founded her own agency, she took charge of the project to build a guest house in Timimoun in the Algerian Sahara. .
After doing her research, she understands that…