Operating between the fields of architecture and sculpture, the works refute construction as a rational enterprise, but instead imagine it as a process simply made up of accumulations of matter, shapeless and brutal. The approach seeks to abandon architectural formalism and the desire for a more raw and intelligible reality of architecture. The aim is therefore to reduce architecture to a skeletal state in order to see, like in an open body, its components and make visible the forces that pass through it. These buildings are built in an intermediate language, materially unfinished, which is why they are less buildings than a form of pre-architecture.
A cycle of projects entitled: Worksite I, II, III and IV (the last chapter has been entitled Black Mortar) are worksites which produced chaotic and spontaneous fragments of architecture, with the aim of one day becoming the alphabet of a complete building. Other projects such as Building/Prototype I and II are constructions that focus more on the articulations between the elements than on the elements themselves. The crudeness of language is intensified by the enhancement of articulations: chains, concrete reinforcing bars, superpositions and accumulations.
"Hence relieving the blockage was always, if only in the darkest region of consciousness, the object of a feverish pursuit. Ancient societies found relief in festivals; some erected admirable monuments that had no useful purpose; we use the excess to multiply "services" that make life smoother, and we are led to reabsorb part of it by increasing leisure time." Georges Bataille - The accursed shared
EXHIBITIONS / WORKS
2021 Alcova Salone del Mobile (Milan)
2021 Private commission (Oberwart)
2021 Private commission (Breitenbrunn)
2021 India Mahdavi Project Room
2021 Piacé Le Radieux (Piacé)
2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice)
2021 5703 newtons on car jacks Le Box (Toulouse)
2021 OMT (oblique mounting technique) Worst Case Scenario (Paris)
2021 Cryptoplasm Ephemera Hic et Nunc NFT platform
2020 Black Mortar / Worksite IV EKKM / Kai Center (Tallinn)
2020 Cancelled Alcova Salone del Mobile (Milan)
2020 Cancelled Schloss Hollenegg (Hollenegg)
2020 Altar for Jayne Mansfield Villa Noailles (Hyères)
2020 Cold Cream (solo show) Architektur Im Magazin (Vienna)
2019 Lake Como Design Fair (Como)
2019 Building / Prototype II Feÿ Arts Festival (Villecien)
2019 Worksite III Parc des hauteurs (Lyon)
2018 Worksite II A Performance Affair (Bruxelles)
2018 Viva Villa (Marseille)
2018 Worksite I Take me I’m yours (Rome)
2018 Villa Médicis (Rome)
PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Graham Foundation (Chicago)
2017-2018 Villa Médicis (Rome)
2015 Jorn Utzon Foundation (Majorca)
2011 Le Corbusier Foundation (Paris)
Operating between the fields of architecture and sculpture, the works refute construction as a rational enterprise, but instead imagine it as a process simply made up of accumulations of matter, shapeless and brutal. The approach seeks to abandon architectural formalism and the desire for a more raw and intelligible reality of architecture. The aim is therefore to reduce architecture to a skeletal state in order to see, like in an open body, its components and make visible the forces that pass through it. These buildings are built in an intermediate language, materially unfinished, which is why they are less buildings than a form of pre-architecture.
A cycle of projects entitled: Worksite I, II, III and IV (the last chapter has been entitled Black Mortar) are worksites which produced chaotic and spontaneous fragments of architecture, with the aim of one day becoming the alphabet of a complete building. Other projects such as Building/Prototype I and II are constructions that focus more on the articulations between the elements than on the elements themselves. The crudeness of language is intensified by the enhancement of articulations: chains, concrete reinforcing bars, superpositions and accumulations.
"Hence relieving the blockage was always, if only in the darkest region of consciousness, the object of a feverish pursuit. Ancient societies found relief in festivals; some erected admirable monuments that had no useful purpose; we use the excess to multiply "services" that make life smoother, and we are led to reabsorb part of it by increasing leisure time." Georges Bataille - The accursed shared
EXHIBITIONS / WORKS
2021 Alcova Salone del Mobile (Milan)
2021 Private commission (Oberwart)
2021 Private commission (Breitenbrunn)
2021 India Mahdavi Project Room
2021 Piacé Le Radieux (Piacé)
2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice)
2021 5703 newtons on car jacks Le Box (Toulouse)
2021 OMT (oblique mounting technique) Worst Case Scenario (Paris)
2021 Cryptoplasm Ephemera Hic et Nunc NFT platform
2020 Black Mortar / Worksite IV EKKM / Kai Center (Tallinn)
2020 Cancelled Alcova Salone del Mobile (Milan)
2020 Cancelled Schloss Hollenegg (Hollenegg)
2020 Altar for Jayne Mansfield Villa Noailles (Hyères)
2020 Cold Cream (solo show) Architektur Im Magazin (Vienna)
2019 Lake Como Design Fair (Como)
2019 Building / Prototype II Feÿ Arts Festival (Villecien)
2019 Worksite III Parc des hauteurs (Lyon)
2018 Worksite II A Performance Affair (Bruxelles)
2018 Viva Villa (Marseille)
2018 Worksite I Take me I’m yours (Rome)
2018 Villa Médicis (Rome)
PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Graham Foundation (Chicago)
2017-2018 Villa Médicis (Rome)
2015 Jorn Utzon Foundation (Majorca)
2011 Le Corbusier Foundation (Paris)