This book draws together texts by the architect Hans Kollhoff, from the essay collection originally published in 2014 under the title Architektur: Schein und Wirklichkeit [Architecture: Appearance and Reality] by Zu Klampen Verlag. Four essays have been selected for a first translation into English and French. In each, the architect takes a definitive stance and asserts the voice of the citizen, focusing on the life of the city and the common good. In addition to the essays, the book includes an extended interview with Hans Kollhoff on his own trajectory, his influences, and his understanding of architecture as a sphere of political engagement.
The selection of texts and the interview were carried out by Pierre Lévy and Gabriel Coin-Andreotti, principals of Coin & Lévy Architectes (Paris).
Texts: Hans Kollhoff - Commentary: Pierre Lévy - Interviews: Pierre Lévy, Gabriel Coin, Hans Kollhoff - Translation: Jean-Léon Muller, Katie Filek - Graphic Design: Matthieu Becker - English/French, 204 pages, June 2025.
The interview printed in this book was conducted by Marlene Laskey with John Lautner in 1982, as part of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program. The 6½ hour interview, published here in a new format and accompanied by select images of Lautner’s projects, offers insight into the workings of an architect with a deep commitment to his profession, to a specific relationship to nature, and to architecture as craft. Lautner’s responses range from his childhood in Michigan, his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, and the clients in Southern California who supported his ambitious designs.
Texts: John Lautner, Marlene Laskey - Partner: UCLA Library Special Collections - Graphic Design: Matthieu Becker - English and French editions, 186 pages + 2 bookmarks, December 2023.
English / Deutsch / Français , 80 pages
The distribution of the Schindler’s manifesto remains uncertain. This was an obligatory step in the life of a young European avant-gardist, and it probably passed from hand to hand. The interest paid to this text today is retrospective. It is an opportunity to go back over the training and early working life of an important architect who is still little-known. What conception of architecture did the young Schindler stand up for in this his first text? Would the beginning of his career follow this doctrinal commitment? How did such Viennese convictions travel to the USA?
Text: Rudolph M. Schindler, Commentary : Marc-Antoine Durand, French translation and commentary : Jacques Boulet , English translation: Ian Monk, German translation : Leonard Ritte, Graphic design: Matthieu Becker
Publiés initialement dans Architectural Design entre 1973 et 1975, la série des sept articles intitulée Collective Design rappelle l’essence collective de l’architecture. Au constat d’une fragmentation culturelle de la société jugée inéluctable, les Smithson interrogent la dimension politique de leur travail à un moment charnière de leur carrière. | Between 1973 and 1975, Alison and Peter Smithson, published a series of seven articles in Architectural Design questioning the unity of the architectural form, as well as their commitment as architects. In recognition of the inevitable cultural fragmentation of society, they question the collective dimension of their work and their relationship with the community.
Textes | Texts: Peter & Alison Smithson - Commentaire | Commentary: Marc-Antoine Durand, Xavier Van Rooyen - Entretiens | Interviews: Dirk Van Den Heuvel, Peter Murray - Traductions | Translations: Francis Guevremont, Ian Monk - Design graphique | Graphic design: Matthieu Becker
Français / English, 192 pages + 2 marque-pages | bookmarks
FR
1966 est une année importante dans l’histoire des théories architecturales. L’émulation intellectuelle à Milan est alors à son comble : philosophes, écrivains, artistes et architectes croisent leurs savoirs et produisent une œuvre collective parmi les plus influentes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. C’est au contact de cette génération talentueuse, dont il fait partie, que Vittorio Gregotti écrira son livre le plus connu : Le territoire de l’architecture. Un texte important, savant, mais aussi difficile, fragmenté, et rendu presque inaccessible au lecteur français par l’insuffisance de sa seule traduction. Jacques Boulet, transposant en architecture un statut du texte que l’historien de l’art Julius von Schlosser définissait par Kunstlitteratur, nous en livre ici, en hommage à Vittorio Gregotti, une lecture utile en “opera aperta”, écrite en 2000 et non publiée, qui pose l’hypothèse, chez l’architecte italien, d’une écriture analogue à la projetation.
Texte: Jacques Boulet, Design Graphique: Matthieu Becker, 48 pages.
À paraître le 15 mars, 2023
Translating: Architecture / Traduire : Architecture explores the diversity of contemporary notions of architecture through the tool of translation. As a mediator between cultural differences and an instrument of resistance to dominant narratives, translation invites us to renew architectural discourse by opening up to multiple frames of reference. To this end, twenty-five architects from around the world were invited to write, in their own language, a short essay on their view of architecture. Translated into French and English, these contributions are accompanied by commentaries from the translators, together revealing frictions, gaps, and discoveries inherent to the act of translation.
Edited by Katie Filek & Marc-Antoine Durand
Co-published with the Pavillon de l’Arsenal
as part of FAIRE Paris
Authors: Adrian Phiffer, AGIT STUDIO, Al Borde, Argyro Pouliovali, Avneesh Tiwari, BAST, CENTRALA, Chen Xi, Cierto Estudio, Craig Nener, Đoàn Thanh Hà, Ibon Salaberria, Jacques Boulet, Jade Kake, Kim Lenschow, Kuutti Halinen, Mio Tsuneyama, Mjölk architekti, PAVA Architects, Sol Camacho, Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir, Soukaina Laabida, Tosin Oshinowo, Waleed Arafa, Yasaman Esmaili, Zoë Toledo
Translators: Aïda Tavakoli, Alex Zucker, Andrew McDougall, Annie Montaut, Aude Fondard, Béatrice Pépin, Beth Fowler, Christine Laferrière, Danh-Thành Do-Hurinville, Daniela Calciu, Débora Farji Haguet, Eeva Parviainen, Eliza Ariadni Kalfa, Françoise Chardonnier, Frédéric Bonnet, George Olusola Ajibade, Gounaud Chung, Hanako Murakami, Ibon Salaberria, Isabelle Piette, Ishaan Anavkar, Jade Kake, Juli Martí Casals, Katerina Bong, Katie Filek, Keana Gorman, Larissa Kyzer, Leilei Chen, Lis-Britt Dalkarl, Louise Pichard-Bertaux, Łukasz Mojsak, Mai Trang, Marc-Antoine Durand, Marie-Hélène Fabre, Monika Szymaniak, Patrick Fitzsimons, Rasmus Meldgaard Harboe, Rebecca James, Rowena Galavitz, Sara Khalili Jahromi, Soukaina Laabida, Tao Mao, Waleed Arafa
Graphic design: Matthieu Becker
13 x 19 cm - 256 pages - French - English
ISBN: 978-2-35487-086-7
April 2026