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    Oct 08, 2020 3 minutes
    Min Hall

    The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future

    BY JEAN DETHIER

    THAMES & HUDSON, 2020

    In 1981, Belgian-born architect Jean Dethier curated the exhibition Down to Earth at the Centre Georges Pompidou. The exhibition, and its companion text of the same name, celebrated earth architecture and enthusiastically promoted its potential in the face of an environmental crisis. Forty years on, takes up these themes with renewed vigour and considerable success.

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