Antti Lovag (1920-2014) was a Hungarian architect who specialized in “bubble” houses and what he called “organic” architecture. He built very few buildings (fewer than ten). The Maison Bernard, on the French Riviera, is one of the finest examples of his work and tells the story of a fascinating relationship between the client, Pierre Bernard, and the architect. The book retraces this relationship and gives prominence to the photographs of Yves Gellie.
It was with the construction of the Maison Bernard that Antti Lovag truly defined his ideas about what a house should be, while simultaneously putting them into practice. Philosophical conception, construction method (abandoning plans in favor of models), spatial and material themes…
Today, the house has been renovated with the intervention of architect Odile Decq in collaboration with Isabelle Bernard (Pierre Bernard’s daughter), respecting the architect’s choices: the specifications and the decision to renovate through color, to employ artisans as Antti Lovag and Pierre Bernard had done… An endowment fund and artist residencies have been established there.

A unique and surprising account of the ways of living experimented with at the ZAD (Zone à Défendre) in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The book is organized around several emblematic locations, some of which have now been destroyed. The students’ drawings and Cyrille Weiner’s photographs complement each other, interspersed with testimonials from the inhabitants.

An interview between Patrick Bouchain and Jade Lindgaard, as well as a text by Christophe Laurens, introduce the book. This work is a call for a different way of living: self-management, the attempt to invent new forms of collective organization…

Architecture is a passionate family affair for the Lafourcades. Bruno Lafourcade, the father, founded his architecture firm in 1968, specializing in the restoration of historic homes. His wife, Dominique Lafourcade, designs gardens renowned worldwide for their beauty.

Specializing mainly in the restoration of 18th-century buildings, the Lafourcades know how to reinvent atmospheres and breathe new life into forgotten places. Whether working on a dilapidated house lacking in character or an exceptional site worthy of their attention, they create residences that seem to have always been there, naturally integrated into their surroundings. Their unique approach to architecture, decoration, and landscaping shapes the contours of today’s Provençal homes and lifestyle, where modernity blends with tradition and vice versa.

In this elegant book, the Lafourcade family opens the doors to secret houses, farmhouses, country estates, castles, vineyards, luxury hotels, pure expressions of their work and true places of fulfillment, as well as the intimacy of their family album, where the art of living combines with passion under the Provençal sky.

This book brings together some thirty photographs whose superimpositions and interplay with space bring to life an architecture both past and future. Words, pages, and images interact to reveal the ghosts of photographs, forgotten places, and times gone by.

This book is the result of a collaboration between photographer Claire Chevrier and historian Arlette Farge. The two perspectives intertwine and respond to each other throughout the book.

Claire Chevrier traveled throughout Essonne to decipher the urban landscapes and landscaping recognized in the 1960s as the most avant-garde: the towns of Athis-Mons, Évry, Grigny, Morangis, Paray, the Saclay Plateau, Ris-Orangis, and Vigneux. What remains of this architectural utopia? Take, for example, the Grande Borne in Grigny, created at the time to provide “more humane” social housing, which four decades later has become an area known as a “sensitive zone,” home to the most disadvantaged populations.

Arlette Farge follows in her footsteps, tracing Claire Chevrier’s photographic journey, pausing at this or that photograph, enriching the work with her reflections through touches of writing.

Aldric Beckmann and Françoise N’Thépé founded their architecture firm in 2002. From the outset, they were one of the most distinctive and promising teams in the emerging French architectural scene. They were part of what became known as the French Touch.

This first book showcasing their work breaks with the usual architect’s monograph. A focus is placed on the photographic approach: a single perspective, that of photographer Olivier Amsellem, creates a visual unity. The reader discovers a carefully curated selection of buildings: apartment blocks in Évry, the Marne-la-Vallée university library, the Masséna housing complex, and more, representative of the Beckmann/N’Thépé spirit.

To address several unrealized projects, a collaboration between the architects and writer Éric Reinhardt allowed the latter to convey through writing what cannot be represented visually. Finally, the book includes an important interview between Aldric Beckmann and Françoise N’Thépé with Nikola Jankovic.

This photography book by Lucien Hervé, the renowned photographer of Le Corbusier, traces, through a gaze constantly seeking a modern perspective, a brief history of sacred architecture.

Through his travels around the world, Lucien Hervé collected images of churches, abbeys, and other religious buildings, forming a journey spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the earliest Syrian churches to Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp. His pursuit of pure form and evocative lines resonates particularly strongly in the expression of Cistercian architecture.