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Menhirs are the first architectures. Not made for dwellings but to mark journeys for a nomadic life.
At first glance it might seem as though sedentary architecture and Le Corbusier (“there will be architecture or there will be revolution”) have won.
But all the time there are new menhirs, most of them accidental, that spring up all around, and they often have remarkable longevity, surviving in shabby and dilapidated states, because they mark trajectories, they are signposts, they are waymarkers.
The ‘accidental menhir’ is just one genus of a taxonomy of spaces and nomadic objects that a walker can create for themselves, a gay pseudo-science or a hobby for masochistic completionists (it cannot be completed).
There is a fine account of transitory architecture in Francesco Careri’s Walkscapes (pages 19-27). If you want a head start then there’s a provisional taxonomy in "A Taxonomy On Its Toes" (Performance Research 11 (1), 2006) or check out the Taxonomy of Spaces endnote in Mythogeography (the book).
