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h2o architectes
Edited by h2o architectes, Building Paris, Fanny Léglise

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This book brings together twenty-nine projects from the past ten years, designed by Paris-based h2o architectes. Arranged in thematic categories that stem from the firm’s singular approach to design and architecture, the projects vary greatly in type, scale, and individual context, including housing developments in Paris, a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, a temporary school pavilion, a timber construction for a vineyard, the rehabilitation of Paris’s Museum of Modern Art, and other large public spaces.

Contemporary Architecture, Monograph
Description
h2o architectes’ proposals are united by an approach that is always both radical and sensitive, an ethos that emerges here from interviews conducted by architect and writer Fanny Léglise, while essays by architect and anthropologist Miguel Mazeri and architect Bernard Tschumi shed light on various aspects of the firm’s practice, vision, and philosophy. The book also features poems by French writer and poet Frédéric Forte, composed in situ at several of h2o architectes’ building sites. Photographs, renderings, and plans round out this first comprehensive volume on one of France’s leading up-and-coming architecture firms.
Author

Fanny Léglise is an architect, PhD student and former editor-in-chief of the journal L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.
Building Paris, is a Paris-based art direction and design studio founded by Benoît Santiard and Guillaume Grall. A special focus of their work is on architecture books.
h2o architectes is a Paris-based firm working on projects of various types and scales, from housing to public space and cultural facilities. The office is dedicated to architectural, heritage and urban creation and reprogramming.

Notes

180 color, 38 b/w

372 pages, 218 illustrations
Hardback, 17x24 cm
French, English
Park Books, 1st edition 2020
ISBN 9783038601982