This book brings together 29
projects from the past ten years, completed and ongoing, designed by
Paris-based h2o Architects. The presentation is arranged by thematic
categories that stem from the firm's singular approach. The tasks vary
greatly in type, scale and individual context: From a housing
development in Paris to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, from a temporary
school pavilion and a timber construction for a vineyard to the
rehabilitation of Paris's Museum of Modern Art in the eastern wing of
Palais de Tokyo and other large public spaces. h2o Architectes'
proposals are united by an approach that is always both radical and
sensitive.
Interviews conducted by architect and writer Fanny
Leglise and 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 Frederic Forte, composed in situ at several of h2o
Architectes' building sites. Photographs, renderings, and plans round
out this first comprehensive monograph on one of France's leading
up-and-coming architecture firms.
Text in English and French.