Moving Mountains Book Presentation with Carl Fredrik Svenstedt

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt and Head Hi invite you to a presentation of Moving Mountains, a new book featuring the architecture of the Paris based studio specializing in architecture made with stone.

Building in stone implies carving a mountain. The results are imposing and profound, creating a presence with self-evident materiality. With stone extracted from Roman quarries, the resulting buildings occupy a temporality resonant with the landscape. Moving mountains is nonetheless a near Herculean task. It requires teamwork, engagement, and perseverance. It also requires intuition to lead the way. The poetry of a pile of stone is how it embodies an idea or an emotion.

Svenstedt will share with us more about the two main parts of the book. The first part four built projects and their specificity and construction, in each case in some version of solid stone. The second part is meant as a scrap or sketch book, succinctly…