Territory as Palimpsest: The Legacy of André Corboz

Book Review| June 01 2024 Territory as Palimpsest: The Legacy of André Corboz Territory as Palimpsest: The Legacy of André Corboz. Archizoom, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 25 September 2023–5 December 2023 Valéry Didelon Valéry Didelon École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 252–254. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.252 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Territory as Palimpsest: The Legacy of André Corboz. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 252–254. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.252 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Although he taught in Montreal from 1967 to 1979 and was a research fellow at the Getty Center in Santa Monica in the early 1990s, the Swiss historian of art, architecture, and urbanism André Corboz (1928–2012) remains relatively unknown to North American practitioners and scholars, perhaps because few of his writings have been translated and made available in English. In the French-, German-, and Italian-speaking parts of Europe, however, and a fortiori in his native Switzerland, Corboz is known for placing the concept of territory at the center of urban and landscape studies in the 1980s and 1990s. He associated this concept with that of palimpsest, that is, "the need to 'recycle,' to scrape clean once more (if possible with the greatest care) the ancient text where men have written across the irreplaceable surface of the soil, in order to make it available again so that it meets today's... You do not currently have access to this content.