The concept of terrain vague was first
theorized by Ignasi de Sola-Morales in the mid 1990s as a contemporary space of
project and design that includes the marginal wastelands and vacant lots that
are located outside the city’s productive spaces – which Morales describes as
oversights in the landscape that are mentally exterior in the physical interior
of the city. Around the same time, the artist and architect collective Stalker
defined Terrains Vagues in the plural as spaces of confrontation and
contamination between the organic and the inorganic, between nature and
artifice that constitute the built city’s negative, the interstitial and the
marginal, spaces abandoned by economic forces, or in the process of
transformation.
Anna Grichting
The concept of terrain vague was first
theorized by Ignasi de Sola-Morales in the mid 1990s as a contemporary space of
project and design that includes the marginal wastelands and vacant lots that
are located outside the city’s productive spaces – which Morales describes as
oversights in the landscape that are mentally exterior in the physical interior
of the city. Around the same time, the artist and architect collective Stalker
defined Terrains Vagues in the plural as spaces of confrontation and
contamination between the organic and the inorganic, between nature and
artifice that constitute the built city’s negative, the interstitial and the
marginal, spaces abandoned by economic forces, or in the process of
transformation.
Anna Grichting