Laurence Crouzet


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Crouzet

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Laurence

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0009-0000-5104-0545

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09724 - Langenberg, Silke / Langenberg, Silke

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  • Preserving Knowledge & Data in Digital Fabrication
    Item type: Presentation
    Crouzet, Laurence; Pöllinger, Adrian; Cheng, Li (2024)
    The radical turn from industrial to digital design and production has led to a paradigm shift in architecture, and it impacts the possibilities to preserve the resulting objects as much as their construction and design. Knowledge about building materials, construction techniques, and production processes is currently being transferred into the digital realm. But how are buildings to be maintained or upgraded if digital data becomes lost, if no or only rudimentary information concerning material or construction is available, or if this information can no longer be gathered using the methods of traditional building research?
  • Augmented Repair and Craftsmanship Heritage
    Item type: Presentation
    Crouzet, Laurence (2024)
    Advanced digital technologies and research in architectural materials and construction processes are transforming work and life towards digitalisation and sustainability. These developments present opportunities not only to reduce environmental impacts, but also to address long-standing labour inequalities, social injustices and gender imbalances in the field. This workshop aims to explore how social discourses and knowledge cultures shape and are shaped by new technologies. It will examine design processes at the intersection of craft, systems thinking and algorithmic cultures, explore how the knowledge embedded in technology can be made more accessible, and offer ways to engage with the ecologies of making.
  • Mount of Things: An Expedition in Object-Oriented Ontology Architecture
    Item type: Monograph
    Crouzet, Laurence (2020)
    University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
    The research behind this thesis engages notions of philosophy and architecture through the realm of ontology and materialism. Understanding the potential residing in phenomenology and applying it to innate objects such as works of architecture opens a world of speculative possibilities. I argue for entities to have no ontological privilege over one another, but rather that all things and beings exist equally. As the contemporary discourse positions our center around human concern as precluding all entities’ perception of the world, I posit that we could perceive buildings or objects as finite things in it of themselves rather than filtering our perception of things through human experience. In the acknowledgment of elevated importance to things, new materialism, re-inscribes humanist values by merely extending agency, vitality, and social phenomena to nonhuman material. The partial construction of the Mont Analogue and its surroundings serves as an attempt at creating architecture in a space where the reality of anything outside of the thought-and-being correlation is unknowable but imaginable. This thesis is a knowledge-seeking expedition to a symbolic mountain where human comprehension and architectural realization are partial. The Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the spheres of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine, and by which the divine reveals itself to man.
  • The Clouds Are Grey
    Item type: Journal Article
    Crouzet, Laurence (2024)
    Trans ~ Dirty
    The clouds are crowded and grey. They contain all the things no one deals with. Archived notes, vacation photos, spam emails, previous BIM iterations, scripts, and sketches: the stuff of life that is ignored or forgotten. They serve as a personal and collective dump, a graveyard of 1s and 0s. The cloud is the abstraction of the technical land. It operates on a geographic site and harnesses resources and energy. Its promise of dematerialization displaced the metabolism of all the processes somewhere else in the expanding virtual world. Most of the resulting generic grey windowless data centers are powered up on campuses that offer little to nothing in the physical space. Server farms are to the digital world what castles used to be: the seat of power. It is the greatest collective treasure of the virtual society, but one of the most selective and guarded physical infrastructures. Data is the most valuable commodity in the world and the most significant user of space.
  • Mount Analogue
    Item type: Other Publication
    Crouzet, Laurence; KoozArch (2021)
  • Preserving Scars
    Item type: Other Publication
    Crouzet, Laurence (2024)
    Paprika! ~ Commitment
  • Ship Shrine
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Crouzet, Laurence (2023)
    Paprika! ~ Mimesis
  • Craft and Repair Heritage: From Capture to Dissemination in Digital Space
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Crouzet, Laurence; Pöllinger, Adrian; Langenberg, Silke (2025)
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
    The preservation of construction and repair knowledge necessitates a shift from static documentation toward the dynamic capture of the embodied and collaborative nature of craft. This paper proposes a framework that leverages motion capture technologies to record and archive whole-body movements associated with traditional and contemporary construction practices. Drawing on historical motion studies and aligning with international heritage charters, the approach addresses the limitations of conventional documentation methods, which often overlook tacit knowledge, human-machine and tool interaction, and the situated processes of making. By integrating motion data into digital preservation workflows, the proposed method facilitates the transmission of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), supports repairability, and enhances the resilience of architectural documentation. The research underscores the ethical, legal, and cultural considerations necessary for documenting sensitive practices and advocates for metadata-enriched, context-aware digital archives. Ultimately, this work contributes to a broader redefinition of architectural preservation that values embodied knowledge and promotes access to craft expertise across temporal, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries.
  • Appropriation of Public Spaces in Contemporary Japan: an Architectural & Sociological account of Democracy, through Behaviourology
    Item type: Monograph
    Crouzet, Laurence (2016)
    As stated by Henri Lefebvre, social theories are essential to comprehend the dynamics of public spaces. This research investigates behaviours and markers of appropriation in order to define space in the Japanese’s social and political context. According to Lefebvre, the essential, the foundation and the meaning of space come from its occupation, investment, and appropriation; in other words, it comes from inhabitation. But of course, the relationship between the city and its citizens begins with the perception that they have of their environment, therefore, an interesting approach is to reconsider the role of the architect when it is assumed that space is built by the perceptions, culture, and imagination of the people. Buildings and towns enable us to structure, understand, and remember who we are. Architecture enables us to place ourselves in the continuum of culture. As one of the goals of the research is to ground society’s behaviours in a global understanding, the analysis of certain types of appropriation will be introduced through the social context in which they emerge. The perception of public space in contemporary Japan will be dissected through four main themes: democracy, embodiment, phenomenology, and finally, architectural practice and aesthetics.
  • Material Flows
    Item type: Journal Article
    Crouzet, Laurence (2019)
    Room One Thousand ~ Material
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