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The collection of works by artists related to architecture and architectural projects of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire, as story of the origins: a rereading of the foundations on which architectural experimentation has been built since the beginning of the 1950s.

224 pages
Co-édition Frac Centre-Val de Loire and Les presses du réel
2019

Price : 20 €
Available in our library  Renée Gailhoustet

Between 1966 and 1978 Superstudio, a group of Italian architects among the most influential of their generation profoundly renewed architecture’s language and Imaginative reach, opening up the discipline to conceptual practices and anticipating, via photomontage, the advent of networked urbanism an total communication.

This book follows the rails blazed by Superstudio, drawing on the chronology and intellectual transversality of the group’s work to assess the impact of its thinking on the fundamentals of architecture.

First French publication about Superstudio
300 pages
Co-edition Frac Centre-Val de Loire & Lienart éditions
2021

Price : 33 €
Available in our library Renée Gailhoustet

Guy Rottier is the man behind a multifaceted, unclassifiable body of work in which art and architecture, poetry and technology, are in constant interaction. Dazzlingly uncompromising, Rottier set out to to radically renew both the language of architecture and the discipline’s standardised lifestyles. Mischievous, whimsical and free-spirited, he stood out all his life for an architecture more playful than entertaining, more childlike than childish, breaking all the rules – from tradition to the law of gravity – so as to redynamise a sclerotically ordered world. This catalogue retraces the career and the major projects of one of the most original “arTchitects” of the second half of the 20th century.

279 pages
Co-edition Frac Centre-Val de Loire & Lienart éditions
2022

Prix : 34 €
Available in our library  Renée Gailhoustet