Wim Cuyvers
RES NULLIUS

RES NULLIUS is the third book by Wim Cuyvers produced by MASEREEL. The book is about Le Montavoies, the terrain on which Wim Cuyvers has literally and figuratively been working for almost twenty years. The book consists of a collection of 200 landscape photographs, an axonometric perspective of the terrain and a number of texts that accompany the photographs. These texts comprise a kind of information leaflet, an instruction manual, lists of things to remember: the banal things in life that want to avoid pathetic projections on the terrain. In the book, Cuyvers further develops the position that architecture is made up of those spaces that lead us outside instead of sheltering interior spaces.

However, a lot has changed in recent years: climate change is having a severe impact on the terrain. Ecological forest management will have to take a very different approach to that followed in the past. Lastly, there is the fact that we are living in a hyperconnected world, that we are subject to a connected condition. Cuyvers argues that the connected condition means that we are always ‘inside’. With this book, he therefore heralds the end of architecture (as he had defined it). Le Montavoies is a danse macabre with the dying medium of the art of space.

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