Le récit suit la structure des romans policiers américains et, au lieu de s'attarder sur des projets et des théories spéculatives, se concentre sur des bâtiments précis. Il s'agit d'une approche novatrice et érudite, à la fois accessible et divertissante. Dans « Mystères d'une caverne communiste », le deuxième volume de la série, Lytle Shaw se lance dans une quête pour percer les secrets du bâtiment conçu par Oscar Niemeyer pour le Comité central du Parti communiste français (PCF) à Paris. Niemeyer a conçu ce bâtiment en 1965, à une époque où les théoriciens du parti commençaient tout juste à repenser les fondements de la représentation du PCF. Il a créé un édifice résolument marxiste qui illustre parfaitement ce que pouvait être le marxisme structuraliste, tel qu'il émergeait à Paris. Lytle Shaw examine minutieusement le langage et le contexte du bâtiment du PCF, élément par élément, et met en dialogue cette structure aux courbes élégantes et à l'immense salle plénière avec des interlocuteurs issus du cinéma, de la philosophie, de l'anthropologie et de la politique. Ainsi, la plus grande énigme de cette caverne communiste demeure peut-être à comprendre pourquoi le PCF ne l'utilise pas plus souvent comme un symbole puissant du monde qu'il souhaiterait voir advenir.
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Lytle Shaw is Professor of English at New York University and a contributing editor for Cabinet Magazine. His books include The Mollino Set, New Grounds for Dutch Landscape and Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. He has also published catalogue essays on artists including Gerard Byrne, Zoe Leonard, Robert Smithson and the Royal Art Lodge, and for institutions including the Dia Center for the Arts, the Museo Reina Sofia, and the Drawing Center.
Thomas Weaver is an architectural writer, educator, and editor based in London. He also lectures at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
Françoise Fromonot is a professor of design, history, and theory at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Belleville and William Wayne Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice Architecture Paris.
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