Monographie illustrée (version anglaise)

Architecture and its representations abound in a book whose generous iconography can be read like a thick literary novel.It's about a thought process, an architecture that makes no secret of its attraction to contemporary art, through the medium of fictions: so many side-steps that lead to four chapters that, like reasoned concepts, establish attitudes and their consequences in architecture.Topographing We go from surface to depth to establish that the underside of the earth, often denied, constitutes an environmental and urban resource for the making of sustainable cities and the protection of landscapes.Mapping Like Dmitri Mendeleev's table of periodic elements, the urban grid is applied and deformed to become, depending on the context, a megalopolis or a fragment of the city.Writing We'll go from building to building, often helping to define the skyline of cities that are always linked to a neighborhood already there or yet to be built. Like a choreography, each one adopts its own figure-posture to resonate with forms and places.Rewriting Any reworking of an already existing project starts from the premise that architecture is incomplete. The process always remains open: the architectural object is not fixed, nor is its urban environment.In this constellation of projects, spanning the period from 2008 to 2024, readers will be able to lose themselves with delight and build their own imaginary city, made up of built and unbuilt architecture.