Arch+ 2023 - The Great Repair - English Edition interiors As Biss moves across the

As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest

it has stood for the unification of Europe’s nation states

In the city of Lisbon

as depending on how the book’s signatures are bound

the designers featured in this book consciously operate in a multi-scalar realm – from the invisible microbial life that lives in our gut to the vast landscapes transformed by agricultural practices

Arch+ 2023 - The Great Repair - English Edition interiors As Biss moves across theWe are doomed to repair. In the face of a world that is ageing, passing away at every moment, this is not a surprising realisation. However, capitalist modernity, with its emphasis on innovation, growth and progress, its economic system based on consumption, use and waste, and the ruthless exploitation of natural resources that goes with it, has entrenched a throwaway mentality in our minds: everything is replaceable.