Imperfection
Subtitle: Atelier Stéphane Fernandez
By: editorial conception: Stéphane Fernandez, Building Paris ; texts: Éléonore Marantz, Stéphane Fernandez ; photographs (projects): Schnepp Renou ; photographs (models): Nicolas Gaillard
Contributors: Marantz, Éléonore; Renou, Schnepp; Gaillard, Nicolas
Publisher: Park Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783038601678
Subjects: Architecture; History; Modern Architecture
Other titles: Atelier Stéphane Fernandez
Description: French architect Stéphane Fernandez creates a 'silent architecture' that invests the landscape as much as it takes shape. He is a minimalist in expression and maximalist in attention to detail. He models rough, thick and fragile monoliths by digging, by movement of bodies and the generation of tensions between masses. Fernandez articulates his work around a permanent search for materials, the accumulation of models, sketches, plans and words. This first monograph on Stéphane Fernandez features five of his realized designs that are emblematic for his approach: a childrens' pavillion (Saint-Raphaël, 2005), a media library (Carnoux, 2007), a students' residence and laboratory building (Banyuls-sur-Mer, 2013), a cultural center (Vertou, 2015) and a primary school (Cannes, 2018). An essay and a conversation with Stéphane Fenrandez by architectural historian Éléonore Marantz complement plans of the buildings and photographs of the five buildings by Berlin-based photographers Schnepp Renou.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In French and English.