The new book in the Typology Collections series is devoted to the camping tent. A common feature of rural landscapes and urban spaces, the tent is an omnipresent typology whose apparent simplicity is deceptive.
Halfway between architecture that can be manipulated and furniture that can be inhabited, the tent has many uses and brings together disparate realities. Reminiscent of primitive huts, descended from military camps, a shelter for leisure or fortune, precarious yet resistant, protective yet porous, the tent is used in both marked and extreme environments. An elementary assembly of high-performance materials, it is designed in the West and produced in Southeast Asia.
Even more than the single-material objects studied in previous issues of Typology, this composite object allows us to become aware of the complex nature of the things that surround us.
