Urban Stratigraphy by anexactoffice published on 2014-11-15T11:13:22Z Stratigraphy & Urbanism A Dialogue Between Simon Price (British Geological Survey) & Etienne Turpin (anexact office) A Matter Theatre Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin Germany What is the geological character of a city? Excavating and analyzing the subsurface zone of the urban landscape, the applied geoscientist Simon Price establishes an underground morphology of anthropic centers. His dialogue partner, philosopher and urban researcher Dr Etienne Turpin, advocates “a geologic turn in architecture,” promoting a more speculative, multidisciplinary, and activist research practice at the intersection of the urban, the environmental, and the political. Comparing their empirical fieldwork, this dialogue traces the methods and practices that inform approaches to the city as both an archival assembly of the Anthropocene as well as the ground for politicized architectural theory. Genre Science
