Lost in the Line...

by Léopold Lambert, a project presented as a comic book that analyzes the metaphorical use of drawn lines as means of control and power:

"The line is essentially the medium that we use to create architecture. We consider a white page and trace a composition of lines that, far from mere representations, constitute the potential embodiment of surfaces in the material realm. Those same surfaces have an incidence –we might say a violence- on the bodies that are subjected to them. The act of drawing, in the context of design, cannot be innocent. The subjectivization of the bodies is precisely what constitutes a weapon and its management is the essence of politics. Architecture is therefore inherently political, whether it is intended as such or not. To try to defuse architecture would be useless. Instead, we might strive to use its weaponized characteristics in favor of personal or collective ethics." L. Lambert

"My architectural work attempts to articulate itself within a context created by a society that proclaimed itself as “post-ideological.” Estimating architecture’s real power does not make it the thaumaturgic entity that the modernists perceived; on the contrary, we must recognize the violent characteristics embodied within it and use them in the frame of a political manifesto."-Léopold Lambert

 LOST IN THE LINE by Léopold Lambert