ELEGIES, Publication for @voluptas_ethz, @min.swiss “Elegy is taken directly from the book Histoire(s) du Cinéma, published by Gallimard in 1998 after the completion of Jean-Luc Godard’s eight-part video project (1988—1998), which met with contro versial critical acclaim. Composed almost entirely of visual, textual, and auditory quotes, Histoire(s) du Cinéma poetically assimilates the course of the twentieth century to the history of the movie industry, merging fiction and documentary in a speculative and intricate allegory. The content consists of a deliberate selection of sonnets and stages an opportunistic “détournement“ of the original: it claims no author ship, as all aphoristic sources have been intentionally chosen to serve a reducing purpose in a specific field, namely that of the architectural project. Accordingly, quotes have been redistributed in a new purposeful sequence, partly edited or augmented to promote a less cryptic content, yet without withholding the poetic motives of the original text. Beyond its critical discourse on the secret allegiance of architectural design to contemporary disillusion, over the years, Elegies became the pedagogical frame work of preliminary exercises held at the ETH design chair Voluptas. This book is the first iteration of a series of publications documenting the manifold understandings of young aspiring architects on the present condition and confronts the active reader with the polysemic content of the original text, hence the plural of its title.“ Chair Charbonnet/Heiz ETHZ Publisher: @m.books_on_architecture Managing editor: @francisco_moura_veiga Editors: Marine de Dardel, @joshua__guiness Lithography: @marjetamorinc