beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Beyond their architecture and their strong presence in the community, high schools are essential places of life for those who attend them, primarily students, but also teachers and all the staff necessary for their proper functioning. Can we still inventory and account for this place of life, of formal and informal learning, this place of confrontation, of displays, of individuation, of socialization, of interaction, this place of immersion, by reducing it to a formal analysis of its architecture? What are we looking at? What do we see? Without answering all of these questions, the dialogue between researchers and photographers allows us to question the contours of what a public facility is: from empty classrooms to portraits of high school students or maintenance staff, from auto repair shops to heritage libraries, from hallways to tree-lined parks…

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