MERYEM LAHLOU

When does architecture shift from a cultural act to a primal one?

Is the persistence of symbols necessary?

Should we reassess the potential of our tools?

To what extent is architecture the result of a petrification of language?

Is architecture invariably a tool for measuring cosmic time?

Is being purely functional already a foundational cultural act?

Does the emergence of collective hygiene spaces require us to redefine the boundaries between private and public, intimate and shared?

In a closed and confined space, does the unknown no longer depend on space?

Does the event inevitably become spatial?

Are we capable of living the continuum?

If the classifications of full/void, mass/space, surface are disrupted, what remains of our certainties and methods?

What is architecture without its commercial power?

Is every organization inherently hierarchical?

Should comfort, effort, and pleasure be reinvented?

What about desire?

Is it time to abandon the brutality of walls in favor of the infinite variation of boundaries?

Can we eliminate the filters between skin and architecture?

Can we change skins?

Is there as much danger in making everything fluid as there is in segmenting everything?

When does nature stop being natural?

Do we really need doors, when even going to the toilet is a natural process?

Do we really need to create rituals around meals, when even plants may no longer be necessary for future generations?

Why don’t we eat the dead?

How much should we educate the child?

Will they even be human?

Is being an architect about creating opportunities?

To forget and flee, or to face and repair?