L'Abécédaire d'Archinov

Photographic exposition

Since 1995, Archinov - Le mouvement des architectes et de leurs partenaires pour le développement de l'innovation - has been providing a forum for all those involved in the built environment, with a wide range of activities, including Cartes Blanches to architects (including one every year at the Architect@Work Paris trade show), Round Tables, In Situ visits and urban walks. A letter-by-letter approach and the free form of the dictionary encourage fluid collective writing, always on the move in the image of Archinov. In a playful vein, we also invented a card game.

To present it at Architect@Work Lausanne 2026, we selected one word per letter. One is not a lot. Yet these words also tell the story of our profession, regardless of their definitions.

Let us judge: architect, bâtir, croquis, dimensions, espace, flexibilité, global, habitat, innovation, jeu, kutsch, lumière, mur, normes, orange, plan, quotidien, re : réaménager, réhabiliter etc., sobriété, tour, utopie, ville, zone....

This selection is in subtle dialogue with Carole Touati's photographs. Her singular view of buildings, guided by their lines and curves from certain chosen angles, reveals a world of abstraction, turning the building-object into an imaginary composition.

Association loi 1901

Head office 49 rue de Belleville 75019 PARIS

association.archinov@gmail.com

archinov.com

Board
President: Dom Palatchi
Vice-Chairman : Jean-Luc Chassais
Treasurer: Philippe Barbier
Secretary: Fanny Bayet

Parisian author-photographer
Carole Touati
Photographs from the “Valse Imaginaire” series
caroletouati-photography.com

Travaux-Pratiques
Exhibition conceived and produced by Thanh-Phong Lê and her team, to whom we extend our warmest thanks.
travaux-pratiques.fr