commonplaces is a practice that explores the quiet, often overlooked architectures shaping everyday life: small, functional structures found in both urban and rural settings.
It focuses on these modest forms as reflections of a shared cultural and human heritage. Crafted with simple means and born from universal needs, such structures appear across regions and eras, evolving into collective spaces and common goods that belong to everyone.
The commonplaces series studies these micro-architectures, their forms, histories, and relationships to their surroundings. Each catalogue is devoted to a specific typology in a distinct location, documenting and reinterpreting everyday structures as meaningful elements of the built environment, sources of knowledge, memory, and inspiration for the future.
commonplaces
Chiara De Libero & Maria Margherita Innocenti
Letzigraben 119
8047 Zurich
info@commonplaces.ch
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It focuses on these modest forms as reflections of a shared cultural and human heritage. Crafted with simple means and born from universal needs, such structures appear across regions and eras, evolving into collective spaces and common goods that belong to everyone.
The commonplaces series studies these micro-architectures, their forms, histories, and relationships to their surroundings. Each catalogue is devoted to a specific typology in a distinct location, documenting and reinterpreting everyday structures as meaningful elements of the built environment, sources of knowledge, memory, and inspiration for the future.
commonplaces
Chiara De Libero & Maria Margherita Innocenti
Letzigraben 119
8047 Zurich
info@commonplaces.ch