Atlas of Shame: A Collective Psychoanalytic Session for European Architecture

The Atlas of Shame represents the world through the relationships between inhabited space, architecture and the feeling of shame.The book touches 40 countries through 8 themes and asks the reader to reflect and question social, economic, cultural reasons that make us qualify and perceive negatively a building, a city, a neighbourhood.The Atlas is an attempt to measure the values that gather or divide our time, where the meter used is the judgement we give to the ways of living and building space. By combining "the most social of the artsΓÇ¥, the Atlas draws a geography of collective values and emotions; a map of world territories on the border between the intimate and the universal.