Sublime

represented by the motif of the imaginary voyage, a journey that reworks and re-imagines the layout of the urban labyrinth and which records observations of the city streets as it passes through them.

I had learned from having a few architects in the apartment that, unlike me, architects in Paris love going into basements and caves, where the “bones” of buildings are. Unlike American structures, buildings in Paris are hundreds or thousands of years old, and no one loves French history more than the French. Go underground, and you can actually se

Hawksmoor

For Paris is, according to its legend, the city where everyone loses his head, and his morals, lives through at least one histoire d’amour, ceases, quite, to arrive anywhere on time, and thumbs his nose at the Puritans—the city, in brief, where all become drunken on the fine old air of freedom. This legend, in the fashion of legends, has this much

L’Auberge de La Môle, we agreed, was the kind of restaurant the French do better than anyone else: highly professional, and yet it felt like the extension of a friend’s kitchen, casual, easy, and comfortable. The restaurants with a row of stars, as good as they are, tend to have a similar veneer, polished, perfect, and international. The Auberge co

A society’s structure and government are linked at the core to the organisation of space, and vice versa. For Foucault (2007) the definition and regulation of space is seen as governmentality, a tool for controlling and governing society. Defining certain spaces by assigning them certain properties, regulating their use and exchange, controlling ac