Degree Zero in Architecture art In a city permeated by

In a city permeated by the cult of the sun and the counter-culture of the Beat Generation

to envisage its landscape

being in constant demand to construct

the birch forest

the fallout of consumer society

Degree Zero in Architecture art In a city permeated byOriginally borrowed from literary studies, the term degree zero has evolved, since the 1960s, into a familiar trope in architectural theory and criticism. First conceptualized in Roland Barthess seminal book, Le degr zro de lcriture, it has been deployed as a discursive and conceptual tool for articulating diverse architectural practicesprojectual, theoretical, speculative, critical, or academic. This edited volume, Degree Zero in Architecture,