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IMPASSE DES LILAS
MBL architectes
2025
Concept: Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme and Carlo Menon (Accattone), Florian Jomain, Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat (MBL)
Editors: Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon
Design: Orfée Grandhomme and Ismaël Bennani
Object photography: Antoine Espinasseau
Copy-editing: Patrick Lennon
French translations and proofreading: Christophe Catsaros, Fanny Léglise, Leonardo Lella (arc en rêve)
Essays: Carlo Menon, Thomas Daniell, Alexandra Midal, Philip Ursprung
Soft cover, 252 pages
24 x 27 cm
English, with French translations
ISBN 978-2-9602530-9-2
€35
(preview)
Keeping up the tension between exhibition catalogue and monograph, Impasse des Lilas explores the interweaving of theories, personal histories, objects and projects that define the architectural practice of MBL.
With works by Etel Adnan, Christopher Alexander, Andreas Angelidakis, Barry Bergdoll, Berger-Berger, BIC, François Blanciak, Bombyx Mama, Simon Boudvin, Andrea Branzi, Robert Breer, Abbé Henri Breuil, Édouard Cabay, Roger Caillois, Thomas Clerc, Mahé Cordier Jouanne, Maxime Delvaux, Estelle Deschamps, Dewez, Documents, Nicolas Dorval-Bory, Julien Dossena / Paco Rabanne, DPA Dominique Perrault, Bernard Dubois, E.A.T., ensamble studio, Annie Ernaux, Eurogroupe, European Space Agency, EZCT, Forensic Architecture, Camille Fréchou, Elsa Garmire, Géocorail, Daniel Grataloup, GTE 2017 (Xavier Albert, Corentin Baudry, Khaled Amine Bennoud, Océane Bonnotte, Anaëlle Bouffard, Stella Capisciolti, Manon Delhomme, Nathan François, Clara Guérin, Natacha Issot, Stéfane Lopes, Thibault Martinez, Flavie Mathie-Claverie, Océane Mayer, Marianne Pommier), Lawrence Halprin, Hiroshi Hara, D.G. Huquier, Arata Isozaki, Charles Jencks, Philip Johnson, Kaiserin, Wajiro Kon, Anne Lacaton et Jean-Philippe Vassal, Bertrand Lamarche, La Ville Rayée (David Apheceix, Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez-Barat), Lucas LaRochelle, Georges-Louis Le Rouge, Édouard Levé, Sarah Lévy, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Cédric Libert, Soshi Matsunobe, Didier Marcel, McDonald’s, Mathieu Mercier, Thierry Metz, Gustav Metzger, Timothy Morton, Muoto, Ryuji Nakamura, PEREZ, Gianni Pettena, Matthieu Peyroulet, Plan Libre, Joanne Pouzenc, P.R.B., Franco Purini & Laura Thermes, François-Nicolas-Henri Racine de Monville, Philippe Rahm, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Thomas Raynaud, Renault Classic, Hubert Robert, Damien Roger, Stéphane Ruchaud, Richard Sapper, Denise Scott Brown, Secchi, Nicolas Simon, SITE (James Wines), Emilio Terry, Stanley Tigerman, Aldéric Trével, Hachij Toshihito, Bernard Tschumi, Max Turnheim, Unifi Design Center, Béatrice Utrilla, Giesbert van Laar, Pierre Vanni, Venturi Scott Brown Architects, Wilhem Wagenfield, Loïs Weinberger, Judith Wielander, James Wong, Kazumasa Yamashita.
Additional financing was contributed through the generous contribution of APSYS (Paris).
MBL is an architecture studio founded by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Benjamin Lafore, later joined by Florian Jomain. Their work explores various fields of architectural culture through buildings, publications, teaching, object design and curating. MBL is committed to a practice of architecture as an investigation and an eclectic production.
Keeping up the tension between exhibition catalogue and monograph, Impasse des Lilas explores the interweaving of theories, personal histories, objects and projects that define the architectural practice of MBL.
Special launch offer:
Worldwide shipping for €5
Valid until mid-May
With this PayPal button
IMPASSE DES LILAS
MBL architectes
2025
Concept: Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme and Carlo Menon (Accattone), Florian Jomain, Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat (MBL)
Editors: Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon
Design: Orfée Grandhomme and Ismaël Bennani
Object photography: Antoine Espinasseau
Copy-editing: Patrick Lennon
French translations and proofreading: Christophe Catsaros, Fanny Léglise, Leonardo Lella (arc en rêve)
Essays: Carlo Menon, Thomas Daniell, Alexandra Midal, Philip Ursprung
Soft cover, 252 pages
24 x 27 cm
English, with French translations
ISBN 978-2-9602530-9-2
€35
(preview)
Additional financing was contributed through the generous contribution of APSYS (Paris).
MBL is an architecture studio founded by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Benjamin Lafore, later joined by Florian Jomain. Their work explores various fields of architectural culture through buildings, publications, teaching, object design and curating. MBL is committed to a practice of architecture as an investigation and an eclectic production.
With works by Etel Adnan, Christopher Alexander, Andreas Angelidakis, Barry Bergdoll, Berger-Berger, BIC, François Blanciak, Bombyx Mama, Simon Boudvin, Andrea Branzi, Robert Breer, Abbé Henri Breuil, Édouard Cabay, Roger Caillois, Thomas Clerc, Mahé Cordier Jouanne, Maxime Delvaux, Estelle Deschamps, Dewez, Documents, Nicolas Dorval-Bory, Julien Dossena / Paco Rabanne, DPA Dominique Perrault, Bernard Dubois, E.A.T., ensamble studio, Annie Ernaux, Eurogroupe, European Space Agency, EZCT, Forensic Architecture, Camille Fréchou, Elsa Garmire, Géocorail, Daniel Grataloup, GTE 2017 (Xavier Albert, Corentin Baudry, Khaled Amine Bennoud, Océane Bonnotte, Anaëlle Bouffard, Stella Capisciolti, Manon Delhomme, Nathan François, Clara Guérin, Natacha Issot, Stéfane Lopes, Thibault Martinez, Flavie Mathie-Claverie, Océane Mayer, Marianne Pommier), Lawrence Halprin, Hiroshi Hara, D.G. Huquier, Arata Isozaki, Charles Jencks, Philip Johnson, Kaiserin, Wajiro Kon, Anne Lacaton et Jean-Philippe Vassal, Bertrand Lamarche, La Ville Rayée (David Apheceix, Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez-Barat), Lucas LaRochelle, Georges-Louis Le Rouge, Édouard Levé, Sarah Lévy, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Cédric Libert, Soshi Matsunobe, Didier Marcel, McDonald’s, Mathieu Mercier, Thierry Metz, Gustav Metzger, Timothy Morton, Muoto, Ryuji Nakamura, PEREZ, Gianni Pettena, Matthieu Peyroulet, Plan Libre, Joanne Pouzenc, P.R.B., Franco Purini & Laura Thermes, François-Nicolas-Henri Racine de Monville, Philippe Rahm, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Thomas Raynaud, Renault Classic, Hubert Robert, Damien Roger, Stéphane Ruchaud, Richard Sapper, Denise Scott Brown, Secchi, Nicolas Simon, SITE (James Wines), Emilio Terry, Stanley Tigerman, Aldéric Trével, Hachij Toshihito, Bernard Tschumi, Max Turnheim, Unifi Design Center, Béatrice Utrilla, Giesbert van Laar, Pierre Vanni, Venturi Scott Brown Architects, Wilhem Wagenfield, Loïs Weinberger, Judith Wielander, James Wong, Kazumasa Yamashita.