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Beau type, vol. 1
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Steve St. Pierre is a Montreal-based art director and brand identity designer with 20 years of experience. Outside of client work, he’s the creator of Mr. Beau Type, a personal archive of vernacular typography found across Montreal. What began as a therapeutic daily ritual—walking the city and photographing old signage—has evolved into a design-forward love letter to the(...)
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Steve St. Pierre is a Montreal-based art director and brand identity designer with 20 years of experience. Outside of client work, he’s the creator of Mr. Beau Type, a personal archive of vernacular typography found across Montreal. What began as a therapeutic daily ritual—walking the city and photographing old signage—has evolved into a design-forward love letter to the(...)
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Steve St. Pierre is a Montreal-based art director and brand identity designer with 20 years of experience. Outside of client work, he’s the creator of Mr. Beau Type, a personal archive of vernacular typography found across Montreal. What began as a therapeutic daily ritual—walking the city and photographing old signage—has evolved into a design-forward love letter to the overlooked textures of urban life..// Steve St. Pierre a plus de 20 ans d’expérience à titre de directeur artistique et créateur d’identité de marque. En dehors de son travail, il est créateur de Mr. Beau Type, une archive personnelle de typographies populaires trouvées à travers Montréal. Ce qui a commencé comme un rituel thérapeutique quotidien— se promener en ville et photographier de vieilles enseignes— est devenu une lettre d’amour avant-gardiste aux designs et textures négligées de la vie urbaine.
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Steve St. Pierre is a Montreal-based art director and brand identity designer with 20 years of experience. Outside of client work, he’s the creator of Mr. Beau Type, a personal archive of vernacular typography found across Montreal. What began as a therapeutic daily ritual—walking the city and photographing old signage—has evolved into a design-forward love letter to the overlooked textures of urban life..// Steve St. Pierre a plus de 20 ans d’expérience à titre de directeur artistique et créateur d’identité de marque. En dehors de son travail, il est créateur de Mr. Beau Type, une archive personnelle de typographies populaires trouvées à travers Montréal. Ce qui a commencé comme un rituel thérapeutique quotidien— se promener en ville et photographier de vieilles enseignes— est devenu une lettre d’amour avant-gardiste aux designs et textures négligées de la vie urbaine.
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June 2026
June 2026
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Architecture de Montréal
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Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form are fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the(...)
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Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form are fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the(...)
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Mysteries of a Communist Cave, Gumshoe #2
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Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form are fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the Gumshoe series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyer’s building for the French Communist Party’s (PCF) central committee in Paris. Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyer’s PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist structure that can thus help us concretely picture just exactly what Structuralist Marxism might have been. Shaw draws out the PCF’s language and context one element at a time and puts the elegant curtain-wall building, with its cave-like assembly hall, into revelatory dialogue with interlocutors in film, philosophy, anthropology, and politics.
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Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. Emulating the detective novel, the focus is on actual buildings rather than on speculative designs and theories. The style and form are fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. In Mysteries of a Communist Cave, the second book in the Gumshoe series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyer’s building for the French Communist Party’s (PCF) central committee in Paris. Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyer’s PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist structure that can thus help us concretely picture just exactly what Structuralist Marxism might have been. Shaw draws out the PCF’s language and context one element at a time and puts the elegant curtain-wall building, with its cave-like assembly hall, into revelatory dialogue with interlocutors in film, philosophy, anthropology, and politics.
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July 2026
July 2026
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Le 9e : La cathédrale Art déco du Eaton de Montréal / Montreal Eaton's Art Deco Dining Cathedral
Le 9e : La cathédrale Art déco du Eaton de Montréal / Montreal Eaton's Art Deco Dining Cathedral
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Until its public reopening on May 17, 2024, high above Montreal's bustling Sainte-Catherine Street, hidden behind locked doors and decades of dust, lay a forgotten gem of Art Deco design: Le 9e, created in 1931 by renowned French architect Jacques Carlu. From its dazzling debut to its closing in 1999, Le 9e embodied the glamour of Eaton's golden age. Now, through(...)
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Until its public reopening on May 17, 2024, high above Montreal's bustling Sainte-Catherine Street, hidden behind locked doors and decades of dust, lay a forgotten gem of Art Deco design: Le 9e, created in 1931 by renowned French architect Jacques Carlu. From its dazzling debut to its closing in 1999, Le 9e embodied the glamour of Eaton's golden age. Now, through(...)
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Le 9e : La cathédrale Art déco du Eaton de Montréal / Montreal Eaton's Art Deco Dining Cathedral
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Until its public reopening on May 17, 2024, high above Montreal's bustling Sainte-Catherine Street, hidden behind locked doors and decades of dust, lay a forgotten gem of Art Deco design: Le 9e, created in 1931 by renowned French architect Jacques Carlu. From its dazzling debut to its closing in 1999, Le 9e embodied the glamour of Eaton's golden age. Now, through meticulous research and newly uncovered archives, Sandra Cohen-Rose reveals the story behind this extraordinary space and the remarkable restoration that has brought it back to life. // Jusqu’à sa réouverture au public le 17 mai 2024, bien au-dessus de l'animation de la rue Sainte-Catherine à Montréal, derrière des portes closes et des décennies de poussière, se cachait un joyau oublié de l'Art déco : Le 9e, conçu en 1931 par le célèbre architecte français Jacques Carlu. De son ouverture éclatante à sa fermeture en 1999, Le 9e incarne le faste de l'âge d'or d'Eaton. Grâce à une recherche approfondie et à des archives inédites, Sandra Cohen-Rose retrace l'histoire de ce lieu exceptionnel et de sa remarquable restauration.
Le 9e : La cathédrale Art déco du Eaton de Montréal / Montreal Eaton's Art Deco Dining Cathedral
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Until its public reopening on May 17, 2024, high above Montreal's bustling Sainte-Catherine Street, hidden behind locked doors and decades of dust, lay a forgotten gem of Art Deco design: Le 9e, created in 1931 by renowned French architect Jacques Carlu. From its dazzling debut to its closing in 1999, Le 9e embodied the glamour of Eaton's golden age. Now, through meticulous research and newly uncovered archives, Sandra Cohen-Rose reveals the story behind this extraordinary space and the remarkable restoration that has brought it back to life. // Jusqu’à sa réouverture au public le 17 mai 2024, bien au-dessus de l'animation de la rue Sainte-Catherine à Montréal, derrière des portes closes et des décennies de poussière, se cachait un joyau oublié de l'Art déco : Le 9e, conçu en 1931 par le célèbre architecte français Jacques Carlu. De son ouverture éclatante à sa fermeture en 1999, Le 9e incarne le faste de l'âge d'or d'Eaton. Grâce à une recherche approfondie et à des archives inédites, Sandra Cohen-Rose retrace l'histoire de ce lieu exceptionnel et de sa remarquable restauration.
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''Rebuilding Is Not a Metaphor: Voices Reshaping the Built Environment Around the World'' brings together architects, planners, policymakers, activists, community organisers, and researchers to explore rebuilding as a concrete practice rather than a symbolic idea. Focusing on the built environment, the book presents responses to environmental disasters, post-industrial(...)
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''Rebuilding Is Not a Metaphor: Voices Reshaping the Built Environment Around the World'' brings together architects, planners, policymakers, activists, community organisers, and researchers to explore rebuilding as a concrete practice rather than a symbolic idea. Focusing on the built environment, the book presents responses to environmental disasters, post-industrial(...)
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Rebuilding is not a metaphor: Voices reshaping the built environment around the world
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''Rebuilding Is Not a Metaphor: Voices Reshaping the Built Environment Around the World'' brings together architects, planners, policymakers, activists, community organisers, and researchers to explore rebuilding as a concrete practice rather than a symbolic idea. Focusing on the built environment, the book presents responses to environmental disasters, post-industrial decline, and conflict across diverse geographical contexts. While deeply rooted in local conditions, the contributions reveal shared concerns and lessons that resonate globally. Through statements, visual essays, and feature articles, contributors examine rebuilding through material interventions, community engagement, knowledge production, and critical reflection.
Rebuilding is not a metaphor: Voices reshaping the built environment around the world
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''Rebuilding Is Not a Metaphor: Voices Reshaping the Built Environment Around the World'' brings together architects, planners, policymakers, activists, community organisers, and researchers to explore rebuilding as a concrete practice rather than a symbolic idea. Focusing on the built environment, the book presents responses to environmental disasters, post-industrial decline, and conflict across diverse geographical contexts. While deeply rooted in local conditions, the contributions reveal shared concerns and lessons that resonate globally. Through statements, visual essays, and feature articles, contributors examine rebuilding through material interventions, community engagement, knowledge production, and critical reflection.
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April 2026
April 2026
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Contemporary Architecture
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Evan Renaudie presents a photographic book that can be seen as a sensitive walk through an iconic architectural project, enhanced by testimonies from different generations. A kind of “family album”, alternating between archival documents and photographs taken by the author, it explores daily life in the atypical social housing that makes the heart of Ivry-sur-Seine so(...)
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Evan Renaudie presents a photographic book that can be seen as a sensitive walk through an iconic architectural project, enhanced by testimonies from different generations. A kind of “family album”, alternating between archival documents and photographs taken by the author, it explores daily life in the atypical social housing that makes the heart of Ivry-sur-Seine so(...)
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Architecture Monographs
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November 2025
November 2025
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Les étoiles d'Ivry, une aventure familiale
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Evan Renaudie presents a photographic book that can be seen as a sensitive walk through an iconic architectural project, enhanced by testimonies from different generations. A kind of “family album”, alternating between archival documents and photographs taken by the author, it explores daily life in the atypical social housing that makes the heart of Ivry-sur-Seine so special. Renaudie offers an embodied, intimate vision of how the utopia of the 1970s is seen, 50 years on. In addition, it presents the view of a daughter, son, and grandson on the production of their father, mother, and grandfather, but then confronted with the perspective of the inhabitants and a photographer.
Les étoiles d'Ivry, une aventure familiale
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Evan Renaudie presents a photographic book that can be seen as a sensitive walk through an iconic architectural project, enhanced by testimonies from different generations. A kind of “family album”, alternating between archival documents and photographs taken by the author, it explores daily life in the atypical social housing that makes the heart of Ivry-sur-Seine so special. Renaudie offers an embodied, intimate vision of how the utopia of the 1970s is seen, 50 years on. In addition, it presents the view of a daughter, son, and grandson on the production of their father, mother, and grandfather, but then confronted with the perspective of the inhabitants and a photographer.
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November 2025
November 2025
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Architecture Monographs
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Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before(...)
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Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before(...)
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October 2025
October 2025
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Finding Ella Briggs: The life and work of an unconventional architect
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Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London, she contributed to England’s postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career, her name is largely forgotten today. "Finding Ella Briggs" restores Briggs to her rightful place in the history of modernist design.
Finding Ella Briggs: The life and work of an unconventional architect
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Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London, she contributed to England’s postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career, her name is largely forgotten today. "Finding Ella Briggs" restores Briggs to her rightful place in the history of modernist design.
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October 2025
October 2025
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Over the past thirty years, the number of architectural laboratories has surged from a handful to hundreds across the globe. Yet the term remains elusive: What defines an architectural lab? And why has it become so compelling to architects today? "The Architectural Laboratory" is the first volume to critically address these questions, assembling a series of essays that(...)
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Over the past thirty years, the number of architectural laboratories has surged from a handful to hundreds across the globe. Yet the term remains elusive: What defines an architectural lab? And why has it become so compelling to architects today? "The Architectural Laboratory" is the first volume to critically address these questions, assembling a series of essays that(...)
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Architectural Theory
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June 2026
June 2026
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The architectural laboratory: performing design research
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Over the past thirty years, the number of architectural laboratories has surged from a handful to hundreds across the globe. Yet the term remains elusive: What defines an architectural lab? And why has it become so compelling to architects today? "The Architectural Laboratory" is the first volume to critically address these questions, assembling a series of essays that examine some of the most remarkable architectural labs of the twentieth century. While scientific laboratories have long been the subject of scholarly inquiry, architecture labs remain underexplored. This book situates them within their specific architectural-historical contexts, revealing how they have operated both metaphorically and materially.
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Over the past thirty years, the number of architectural laboratories has surged from a handful to hundreds across the globe. Yet the term remains elusive: What defines an architectural lab? And why has it become so compelling to architects today? "The Architectural Laboratory" is the first volume to critically address these questions, assembling a series of essays that examine some of the most remarkable architectural labs of the twentieth century. While scientific laboratories have long been the subject of scholarly inquiry, architecture labs remain underexplored. This book situates them within their specific architectural-historical contexts, revealing how they have operated both metaphorically and materially.
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Dans cette synthèse historique sur la place du vélo à Montréal, Simon Lord démontre que la métropole québécoise a bel et bien une culture cycliste et que celle-ci ne date pas d’hier. De l’arrivée du premier vélocipède au Québec en 1868 à l’avènement du BIXI et du Réseau express vélo (REV), il s’applique à dessiner le contour de la pratique cycliste sur l’île et à en(...)
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Dans cette synthèse historique sur la place du vélo à Montréal, Simon Lord démontre que la métropole québécoise a bel et bien une culture cycliste et que celle-ci ne date pas d’hier. De l’arrivée du premier vélocipède au Québec en 1868 à l’avènement du BIXI et du Réseau express vélo (REV), il s’applique à dessiner le contour de la pratique cycliste sur l’île et à en(...)
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Petite histoire du vélo à Montréal
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Dans cette synthèse historique sur la place du vélo à Montréal, Simon Lord démontre que la métropole québécoise a bel et bien une culture cycliste et que celle-ci ne date pas d’hier. De l’arrivée du premier vélocipède au Québec en 1868 à l’avènement du BIXI et du Réseau express vélo (REV), il s’applique à dessiner le contour de la pratique cycliste sur l’île et à en retracer les hauts et les bas au gré des époques, en s’appuyant sur de nombreuses sources journalistiques et historiques ainsi que sur les grands projets d’urbanisation qui ont fait de Montréal la ville qu’elle est aujourd’hui. Entre machine sportive préférée de la grande bourgeoisie et symbole de modernité, jouet pour enfants et moyen de transport populaire, outil de travail et emblème de la contre-culture, le vélo à Montréal a une longue histoire, aussi mouvementée que fascinante, qui s’est écrite en opposition et en résistance à la place grandissante accordée à l’automobile à partir du milieu du XXe siècle. Car au-delà de sa commodité, de ses vertus pour la santé et l’environnement, et du plaisir qu’il génère, la question centrale que pose le vélo depuis cent cinquante ans peut se résumer ainsi : comment souhaite-t-on naviguer et donc habiter la ville ?
Petite histoire du vélo à Montréal
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Dans cette synthèse historique sur la place du vélo à Montréal, Simon Lord démontre que la métropole québécoise a bel et bien une culture cycliste et que celle-ci ne date pas d’hier. De l’arrivée du premier vélocipède au Québec en 1868 à l’avènement du BIXI et du Réseau express vélo (REV), il s’applique à dessiner le contour de la pratique cycliste sur l’île et à en retracer les hauts et les bas au gré des époques, en s’appuyant sur de nombreuses sources journalistiques et historiques ainsi que sur les grands projets d’urbanisation qui ont fait de Montréal la ville qu’elle est aujourd’hui. Entre machine sportive préférée de la grande bourgeoisie et symbole de modernité, jouet pour enfants et moyen de transport populaire, outil de travail et emblème de la contre-culture, le vélo à Montréal a une longue histoire, aussi mouvementée que fascinante, qui s’est écrite en opposition et en résistance à la place grandissante accordée à l’automobile à partir du milieu du XXe siècle. Car au-delà de sa commodité, de ses vertus pour la santé et l’environnement, et du plaisir qu’il génère, la question centrale que pose le vélo depuis cent cinquante ans peut se résumer ainsi : comment souhaite-t-on naviguer et donc habiter la ville ?
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May 2026
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"/People" ?explores how individuals can work across multiple disciplines instead of following a single, specialised path. Based on over 15 years of research at the Architectural Association’s Interprofessional Studio, the book introduces the idea of “/People” as a new way to describe creatives who move between architecture, design, performance, and other fields. It(...)
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"/People" ?explores how individuals can work across multiple disciplines instead of following a single, specialised path. Based on over 15 years of research at the Architectural Association’s Interprofessional Studio, the book introduces the idea of “/People” as a new way to describe creatives who move between architecture, design, performance, and other fields. It(...)
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/People: At home in more than one discipline
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"/People" ?explores how individuals can work across multiple disciplines instead of following a single, specialised path. Based on over 15 years of research at the Architectural Association’s Interprofessional Studio, the book introduces the idea of “/People” as a new way to describe creatives who move between architecture, design, performance, and other fields. It presents case studies, methods, and practical examples that show how combining skills from different areas can lead to new ideas and professional opportunities. Instead of focusing on one discipline,?/People?looks at how knowledge from different fields can be combined to create new ways of working. It examines how objects take on meaning through use, how people collaborate effectively, and how creative work connects to broader social and professional contexts. The book provides insights for those interested in expanding their practice, including professionals, educators, and students, offering tools to navigate a world where creativity is increasingly shaped by different influences and perspectives.
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"/People" ?explores how individuals can work across multiple disciplines instead of following a single, specialised path. Based on over 15 years of research at the Architectural Association’s Interprofessional Studio, the book introduces the idea of “/People” as a new way to describe creatives who move between architecture, design, performance, and other fields. It presents case studies, methods, and practical examples that show how combining skills from different areas can lead to new ideas and professional opportunities. Instead of focusing on one discipline,?/People?looks at how knowledge from different fields can be combined to create new ways of working. It examines how objects take on meaning through use, how people collaborate effectively, and how creative work connects to broader social and professional contexts. The book provides insights for those interested in expanding their practice, including professionals, educators, and students, offering tools to navigate a world where creativity is increasingly shaped by different influences and perspectives.
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September 2025
September 2025
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Comme le rappelle Patrick Bouchain, « Au XXe siècle, l'expérimentation a souvent été encouragée, tant pour des raisons de première nécessité, comme après la seconde guerre mondiale, que pour des raisons plus symboliques, comme celle de se donner l'image d'une société innovante. » En architecture, la notion d'expérimentation recouvre des réalités opposées : la grande(...)
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Comme le rappelle Patrick Bouchain, « Au XXe siècle, l'expérimentation a souvent été encouragée, tant pour des raisons de première nécessité, comme après la seconde guerre mondiale, que pour des raisons plus symboliques, comme celle de se donner l'image d'une société innovante. » En architecture, la notion d'expérimentation recouvre des réalités opposées : la grande(...)
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Trilogie – Pierre Lajus : L'Arcadie en bois
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Comme le rappelle Patrick Bouchain, « Au XXe siècle, l'expérimentation a souvent été encouragée, tant pour des raisons de première nécessité, comme après la seconde guerre mondiale, que pour des raisons plus symboliques, comme celle de se donner l'image d'une société innovante. » En architecture, la notion d'expérimentation recouvre des réalités opposées : la grande expérimentation politico-industrielle des modèles constructifs mis en place par le ministère de l'équipement dans les années 60 pour différents programmes de logements ou d'équipements scolaires. Et face à elle, l'expérimentation de l'inventeur, moins balisée, moins totalisante, mais pas moins ambitieuse. L'architecte Pierre Lajus appartient sans consteste à cette dernière catégorie. Au début des années 1970, il invente une architecture hédoniste répondant aux besoins d'une nouvelle société des loisirs issue des trente glorieuses.
Trilogie – Pierre Lajus : L'Arcadie en bois
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Comme le rappelle Patrick Bouchain, « Au XXe siècle, l'expérimentation a souvent été encouragée, tant pour des raisons de première nécessité, comme après la seconde guerre mondiale, que pour des raisons plus symboliques, comme celle de se donner l'image d'une société innovante. » En architecture, la notion d'expérimentation recouvre des réalités opposées : la grande expérimentation politico-industrielle des modèles constructifs mis en place par le ministère de l'équipement dans les années 60 pour différents programmes de logements ou d'équipements scolaires. Et face à elle, l'expérimentation de l'inventeur, moins balisée, moins totalisante, mais pas moins ambitieuse. L'architecte Pierre Lajus appartient sans consteste à cette dernière catégorie. Au début des années 1970, il invente une architecture hédoniste répondant aux besoins d'une nouvelle société des loisirs issue des trente glorieuses.
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June 2026
June 2026
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
