Theory

Tabula Rasa

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The modernist gesture of erasing existing urban fabric to build anew (Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin); critiqued in the dossier as a method that is no longer environmentally or politically cost-free.

Ground Power Settlement

Sources

  1. Manfredo Tafuri. Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development. MIT Press, 1976.

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First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Tabula Rasa." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/tabula-rasa/. Accessed July 17, 2026.