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Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture Travel Soil functions as a nexusTotems brings together ten texts by architect, historian, and critic Irne Scalbert. Written between 2001 and 2025, they reflect nearly three decades of critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. Ranging in length and registerfrom concise meditations to extended analytical essaysthe collection captures the evolution of Scalberts thinking as a critic, teacher, and participant in architectural discourse. Organized thematically into