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12 OCT 2024
Book fair
Join us at Lille Archi Market to check out our full catalogue and find slightly damaged copies of sold-out issues, posters and rarities.
Free entry, 10am–6pm
Bazaar St So, 292 rue Camille Guérin, Lille
5–6 OCT 2024
Book fair
Join us at Wiels Art Book Fair this weekend to have a copy of To Koenraad Dedobbeleer. Warmly, Pierre Leguillon signed by the two artists (Saturday at 4pm), as well as surprise publications by our friends Simon Boudvin and Ultrabagarre. On Sunday at 2pm we’ll have a blind date with art book publisher Avarie (auditorium). As usual, throughout the fair you’ll be able to check out our full catalogue and find slightly damaged copies of sold-out issues.
Free entry, Sat 11am–7pm and Sun 11am–6pm
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels
12 JUNE 2024
Talk
Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini and members of Dogma and Office KDGVS will discuss the legacy of Villa Baizeau at CIVA Brussels, in a double-bill book launch moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch: Véronique Boone’s book Le Corbusier on Camera and our recent Simple Architecture (still in stock… get the last copies!).
CIVA Brussels, 7–9pm
free entry
(more info)
25 MAY 2024
Launch
Accattone #8 launch and sale this Saturday afternoon at Bar à Nelson in Brussels, with ‘Grande Dépression’, a talk/performance by artist Clément Hébert, contributor to this issue.
Bar à Nelson, Av. Wielemans-Ceuppens 128, 5–8pm
12 MAR – 13 MAY 2024
Exhibition
The exhibition High Tech Low Tech stems from the consideration that any building designed according to the currently dominant architectural principles is ‘zombie’, non-living, as it is based on technologies and energies that will soon be exhausted or too costly for the planet. This zombie perspective invites us to reconsider the way we approach architecture, to ‘de-project’ it by reappropriating the tools of thinking and doing.
By taking technology out of the ghost of innovation, the exhibition looks at techniques that emerge from hybrid, localised, living cultures, based on knowledge and skills – between engineer and bricoleur – that are transferred and contaminated across disciplines and social groups. Neither high-tech nor low-tech, these experiments represent a sample of minoritarian but fertile approaches that can help us to rethink our relationship with the built environment and architectural practice.
Guest curator Sophie Dars with the participation of Carlo Menon
Archizoom curator Roxane Le Grelle with the collaboration of Solène Hoffmann
Monday to Friday, 9:30–17:30
Archizoom, EPFL Lausanne
free entry
(more)
Events: Opening lecture by Sophie Dars (Monday 11 March, 18:30, fr/en) / ‘Impure Tech’: Alexandre Monnin in discussion with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Monday 25 March, 18:30, fr) / Screening of La vie en kit (Life Assembled) and discussion with filmmaker Élodie Degavre (Monday 15 April, 18:30, fr/en) / Guided tour by the curators (Monday 22 April, 17:00, fr) / ‘Wild Tech’: Nicolas Nova in discussion with Tiphaine Abenia (Monday 22 April, 18:30, fr) / Guided tour by the curators (Monday 6 May, 17:00, en) / ‘Milieu Tech’: Victor Petit in discussion with Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon (Monday 6 May, 18:30, fr)
Flyer design Sophie Wietlisbach
Exhibition pictures Solène Hoffmann
2–4 FEB 2024
Book fair
All issues of Accattone, books and special prints on display – and some for sale – at Artists Print XI, at Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
13 DEC 2023 – 31 JAN 2024
Exhibition
The project ‘Magasin/Magazine’ by Accattone editors Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon and their guests is part of the exhibition Émulations, curated by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat at Académie des beaux-arts, Paris. The exhibition also displays the three other original projects selected after an open call on the theme of ‘Écriture’ (Writing): ‘Spolia’ by Estelle Barriol / Studio ACTE, ‘L’attrape-rêves’ by CompMonks and ‘L’Usage de l’Espace’ by Max Turnheim. Thank you all for letting us try this new experiment on the slippages between editorial and architectural project.
10 NOV 2023
Talk
Presentation to the second-year students in architecture at La Cambre Horta.
6–7 NOV 2023
Book fair
Accattone #7, Écoles troubles, Solar Club and ephemera such as an invite for Baukunst and Villa Thunberg’s poster were on sale at Archizoom, EPFL Lausanne.
29 JUNE 2023
Launch
We are very happy about Château de Chambord, Dilmun Burial Mounds, Jože Plečnik, Río Tinto, Victor Horta, the book project we have been developing with long-time friends and frequent collaborators Maxime Delvaux and Architecture Curating Practice, distributed by co-publisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König: it’s a beauty!
Book launch in Brussels at et al., an architect-run space managed by Architecture Curating Practice, from 6pm.
JUNE 2023
Launch
Écoles troubles – Penser, éditer, spatialiser la controverse is out!
It contains texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatialized by Accattone together with the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles.
20 MAY 2023
Talk
During the Venice Biennale opening days, round-table conversation with Italian magazines Stoà and Urbano, organized by Reading Room in collaboration with Combo (next day: Vesper, ADH, Panteon, Sicilia). Ex Convento dei Crociferi Campo dei Gesuiti, Cannaregio 4878, Venice from 6pm.
17 APRIL 2023
Talk
Join Sophie Dars and Sébastien Martinez-Barat, co-founder of MBL Architects, in the conversation ‘Form, Language, Relation’, about the aesthetics of relationships, and the potential for a new, more delicate, more ambitious and more contemporary language – both constructive and aware of the multiple relational fields that shape the habitat. In the frame of the exhibition Sympoiesis. Arts of practice in the ecological city, Archizoom at EPFL Lausanne.
18–19 MAR 2023
Talk & Book fair
Join us at Wiels Art Book Fair (Brussels) to check out our full catalogue, a few copies of sold-out issues taken from our archives, and a talk on ‘little’ architecture magazines, ‘Critical Editorial Devices / Architecture in the Second Degree’ (Sunday 19 at 1pm, auditorium).
3–5 FEB 2023
Book fair
All issues of Accattone on display and some for sale at Artists Print X, at Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels. Thank you JAP!
30 JAN – 3 FEB 2023
Workshop and talks
19–22 JAN 2023
Talk & Book fair
Accattone at the sixth Index Art Book Fair at Kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico City, titled ‘La traducción como transformación de territorios’. Our talk is on Saturday 21 Jan, 2–3pm. Travelling was possible thanks to the genereous support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International and WB Architectures.
15 DEC 2022
Talk
Presentation of the forthcoming one-week workshop led by Accattone at ENSA Versailles, with a digression on independent publishing as a means to think, edit and spatialize the debate.
29 NOV 2022
Talk
Public discussion on ‘Printing Architecture’ with Leonard Streich (Something Fantastic), Carlo Menon and Sophie Dars (Accattone), moderated by Mari Hvattum and Paul-Antoine Lucas within the cycle ‘(RE)acting/(EN)acting – Collective Dissidence, Reclaiming the Neighborhood’, an academic forum of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) for the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and elaborated in collaboration with the Fall 2022 Guest Lecture Series at AHO. (link and live streaming)
26–27 NOV 2022
Book fair
Accattone at the guest table of SPRINT 22—Independent Publishers & Artists’ Books Salon at Spazio Maiocchi, Milano.
7 OCT 2022
Talk
Panel talk ‘Drawing and Architecture’ with Francis Carpentier (CIVA), Carlo Menon and Eva Le Roi, moderated by Constance Hautier and curated by Marion Adrian, within the drawing art fair Art on Paper, Brussels.
11 MAY 2022
Talk
Lecture on Accattone #6 and 7 to MA students of the seminar ‘Vegetation and Buildings: The Agency of Plants in the City’ (Sandra Bartoli). Hochschule München, Faculty of Architecture.
15–17 APR 2022
Talk
Panel talk on architectural publications, with editors of Delphi and Failed Architecture, moderated by Katharina Benjamin and Angelika Hinterbrandner (KNTXTR). YEAH! Festival of Architecture, organized by Philippe Nathan and Gianpiero Venturini at Kulturfabrik, Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).
30 MAR 2022
Talk
Lecture on Accattone #6 and 7 to MA students in architecture (Sabrina Puddu) and interior architecture (Stefanie Everaert & Caroline Lateur) at Serra — Un Soggiorno Segreto, Ghent (photo Stefanie Everaert).
10 MAR 2022
Talk
‘This BK Talks will discuss the present and future of editorial practices in design, bringing to the table a group of renowned professionals from the publishing world, moderated by members of student-run magazine of the BK Faculty, BNieuws. In the realm of design journals and publications, the current pandemic seems to have just accelerated the ongoing shift towards a more networked approach to the profession. In this context, publishers, editors and critics have had to rethink their position, realising that traditional ideas of “dissemination” do not always correspond to ways in which we currently gather information. On the one hand, the rise of more decentralised ways of publishing gave prominence to popular online platforms, where designers are able to upload their own content. However, this format can also result in an indirect manipulation by other interests beyond design. While adapting to a present where we can easily search for new designs on the web, some widely-read publications have been prioritising alternative content: more politically engaged, multi-disciplinary and discursive. While strongly contributing to opening up architectural discourse in profound ways, this is also an approach that might fail to deliver clear messages and ideas on the subject of design, especially to the general public. Is it significant to disseminate architectural knowledge and criticism to a mainstream public? If so, are we disseminating criticism throughout the right channels? How will the current transformations in the production and reception of information affect the format, as well as the content, of design publications?’
Moderators: Tuyen Le and Alessandro Rognoni. Panelists: Merel Pit, Mark Minkjan, Carlo Menon, Enrique Encabo, Andrej Radman. Video featurettes: Iker Gil, Nuria Moliner, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Ilka Ruby. TU Delft and online broadcast.
20–23 JAN 2022
Book fair
Accattone is part of the Index Art Book Fair at Kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City.
17 NOV 2021
Talk
Presentation of Accattone #6 and #7 within the doctoral seminar “SYLVA – Ripensare la « selva ». Verso una nuova alleanza tra biologico e artefatto, natura e società, selvatichezza e umanità” (Rethink the sylvan. Towards a new alliance between biology and artificiality, nature and society, wilderness and humanity). With an introduction by Juan Lopez Cano and Andrea Pastorello, and responses Carmen Andriani, Manuel Gausa, Davide Servente. Scientific supervisors Alberto Bertagna and Massimiliano Giberti, University of Genoa.
8 NOV 2021
Launch
Book launch of Objects of Fascination within the eponymous exhibition at MAD Brussels, where some of the stories behind the tables will be presented by their authors: Gaétan Brunet (UR), Francelle Cane (PhD Luxemburg), Sophie Dars (Accattone), Ambra Fabi (Piovenefabi), Dieter Leyssen (51N4E), Jasper Stevens (Felt), Nelson Van Campenhout (GiustoVanCampenhout).
22–24 OCT 2021
Book fair
All issues of Accattone, Grand Dessein du Rationalisme and the last few copies of Five Stories of São Paulo will be on display and for sale at Artists Print IX, at Brass, Brussels. Opening Friday 22, 5–9pm.
14 OCT – 7 NOV 2021
Exhibition
The planted model that we created last year for the Villa Noailles is on display at CIVA within the exhibition Institution Building, curated by Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski and Cédric Libert.
Opening Thursday 14 October at 19:00, with a talk by Accattone and Plant & Houtgoed.
On show until 7 November, free
Villa Thunberg is a project by Accattone magazine (Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele) in collaboration with architects Alice Nouvet, Alice Paris, Camille Pons and Plant & Houtgoed (Jeroen Deseyn, Nicolas Vandenplas). More info here.
13 OCT 2021
Launch
Book launch of Grand Dessein du Rationalisme at the EPFL Lausanne, where it originated, with a lecture on little magazines. Also streamed online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/98002141257
23 SEP –14 NOV 2021
Exhibition
The exhibition Objects of Fascination is on show at MAD Brussels. A book published by Accattone and Architecture Curating Practice will soon be available.
This collective project of 45 table designs was initiated by CENTRAL (Radim Louda, Paul Mouchet & Valentin Piret), Maxime Delvaux and UR (Chloé Valadié & Gaétan Brunet). More info here.
10–12 SEP 2021
Book fair
A Puta da Leitura, a curated pop-up book store organised by Antecâmara Radio and Gallery together with Julia Albani.
“Concerned with publishing in architecture and curious about diverse perspectives taking shape of a book, a magazine or a newspaper, we invite you to join us for three days of A PUTA DA LEITURA at Antecâmara. Coinciding with the Lisbon Book Fair’21, we invited a group of publishers with a selection of three titles each, on view and available here, at the pop-up book store.”
3 JULY 2021
Talk
Domesticity and Hospitality, a day-programme of events at C-Mine, Genk, within the framework of Le Paysage Ménagé. Curated by CIAP and FLACC, with a presentation of Accattone #7 and an artist talk by Ciel Grommen & Maximiliaan Royakkers (link).
1 JULY 2021
Talk & exhibition
Round-table conversation ArchiZines Review Ep. 02, curated by Järfälla, within the New Generations Festival 2021 at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Participants: Jacquard (IT), Traccia (IT), Vuoto, Orizzontale (IT), Accattone (BE), Delphi (CH).
21–22 MAY 2021
Launch
Accattone #7 launch at Ca’Bu, Venice, within the Biennial Books event. “A selection of the latest, the newest, architecture, and Biennale related publications, with 2038 / German Pavillion (de), Accattone (be), Arch+ (de), Arts of the Working Class (de), CIVA (be), Gato Negro (mx), Het Nieuwe Instituut / Exploratorium (nl), Institutions (de), Misantropzine (be), O Book Publisher (nl), Other Forms (usa/de), Roma Publishers / Experimental Jet-Set (nl), Silvestre (mx), Sorry Press (de), Sternberg (de), Superpositions (ch), Valiz (nl), Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck (be), and others.”
9 MAR 2021
Talk
Discussion on Accattone with Reading Room’s principal Francesca Spiller, as the 20th episode of the series Periodica Ossessione, on independent periodicals. Broadcasted on the Italian radio station Radio Raheem.
27 FEB 2021
Talk
Presentation of Accattone from the angle of “Restriction”, this year’s theme of the student-run initiative Ateliers Nocturnes. La Cambre Horta faculty of architecture, Brussels (where some of us teach).
16 FEB 2021
Talk
Presentation of Accattone and the actual development of the project to the residents of the Villa Medici, in Rome, following an invitation by our friend and artist Simon Boudvin, who has just published a beautiful study of an invasive plant in his neighbourhood (Ailanthus Altissima, éditions B42).
29 JAN 2021
Republished
Our conversation with Quentin Nicolaï on his exploration of sacred forests in South Benin, published in Accattone #6, is now featured on the Drawing Matter website. Your can read it online here.
2 DEC 2020
Talk
Talk on Accattone #6 and Villa Thunberg at a seminar with Sébastien Marot and Djamel Klouche, ENSA Versailles.
1 OCT 2020
Talk
As the first occurrence of a series of talks on ‘inhabiting the world’, we present a reflection on holding a public library at the entrance of an art space, together with a selection of books and magazines (check the poster). CIVA / Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels.
SEPT 2020
Republished
Our visit to Pierre Leguillon’s Museum of Mistakes, published in Accattone #4, ended up as a ‘Guided Tour’ in the first pages of his beautiful monograph published by Patrick Frey.
1–28 AUG 2020
TV Hack
After the lockdown, Accattone’s website has been hacked for several weeks by channel 2038 of space-timeTV. The perpetrators have issued the statement on the right.
SUMMER 2020
Text
Alongside other design, curatorial and editorial practices, we were asked to contribute to the issue #175 of Plan Libre with an image and a thousand words on our ‘doubts and enthusiasms’ on architecture (in French). The magazine is edited by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Joanne Pouzenc and published by the Maison de l’Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées.
20 MAY 2020
Issues #1–4
We weren’t keen on circulating PDFs as our magazine is meant to be experienced in print, but for what is worth, PDF versions of all the sold-out issues are now available for a small amount on our website.
6–8 MAR 2020
Book fair
All issues of Accattone, Villa Thunberg’s poster and Five Stories of São Paulo will be on display at Artists Print VIII, at Brass, Brussels.
4 MAR 2020
Launch
Launch of Eva Le Roi & Pierre Burquel’s book Five Stories of São Paulo at Speculoos, Brussels.
8 FEB – 15 MAR 2020
Exhibition
Accattone takes part in the group show Houses for Superstars. Hypermediated architecture at Villa Noailles in Hyères, France.
Six architecture practices were invited to choose a ‘superstar’ and design a villa in the form of a model or an installation. Following-up from the themes explored in issue #6, Accattone and its team present a territorial, post-sedentary ‘villa’ dedicated to the tutelary figure of Greta Thunberg, that confronts the changing climate regime through the human, plant and animal migrations it entails.
(see Villa Thunberg’s page)
A project by Accattone magazine (Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele) in collaboration with architects Alice Nouvet, Alice Paris, Camille Pons and Plant & Houtgoed (Jeroen Deseyn, Nicolas Vandenplas). Produced by Accattone, Plant & Houtgoed and Villa Noailles with the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures.
23–26 JAN 2020
Book fair
Accattone is guest at Index Art Book Fair at kurimanzutto art galley, Mexico City. Thanks to the organisers and to Erica Overmeer (O Book Publisher) who once again brought the copies with her from Europe.
(press release)
21 NOV 2019
Launch, talk
Accattone #6 will be presented in its home town at La Loge, a space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture and theory.
6pm: guided tour of the ongoing exhibition by Rotor, Life under a cherry tree
7pm: presentation of Accattone #6 by the editorial team and some contributors
8pm: drinks & copies
5 OCT 2019
Launch, talk & projection
Artist-run space Ampersand hosts Accattone during the Lisbon Triennale opening days.
– Presentation of Accattone #6
– Artist talks by Simon Boudvin and Giaime Meloni on their photographic encounters with, respectively, wild plants in the urban fabric and urban fabrics in contemporary deserts
– Projection of Christopher Roth’s movie Architecting after Politics
– Drinks & copies
Travel supported by WBI Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
26 SEPT — 24 NOV 2019
Exhibition
Accattone #6 is on display at the Oslo Architecture Triennale’s core exhibition, The Library.
25 SEPT 2019
Book launch
Launch of Accattone #6 and Simon Boudvin’s Un Nouveau Musée at Volume bookshop, Paris.
7 SEPT 2019
Launch
Un Nouveau Musée is the title of a book by the first-ever contributor to our magazine, Paris-based artist Simon Boudvin, on his intervention at the Folklore Museum in Mouscron, Belgium. The book is co-published by Accattone and MER.Paperkunsthalle (sales here).
6 — 8 SEPT 2019
Book fair
Preview of Accattone #6 and Un Nouveau Musée at the first Architecture and Landscape Book Fair, in Brussels, organised by CIVA in partnership with the WIELS Art Book Fair.
7 MAY 2019
Lecture
‘Accattone as Journey’, lecture within the cycle ‘Learning from’ organised by OSA, the student association of Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
3 MAY 2019
Book fair & round table
Accattone is invited at the conference Publishing in Architecture, organised by ARCH+.
‘Introduced by Mark Wigley (Columbia University) and moderated by Francisco Moura Veiga (A FORSCHUNG / CARTHA Magazine/ETH Zurich) and Anh-Linh Ngo (ARCH+, Berlin), the symposium brings together an international panel to discuss publishing as an alternative spatial practice. Sandra Bartoli (Architektur im Gebrauch, Berlin), Olaf Grawert (Brandlhuber+/ ETH Zürich), Cédric Libert (CIVA Foundation, Brussels), Carlo Menon & Sophie Dars (Accattone, Brussels), Erica Overmeer (Impresión Mexicana, Index Architecture/Index Art Book Fair, Mexico and Berlin) and Mirko Zardini (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal) will present one publication—not necessary of their own making—and discuss why it's relevant for them personally and for the discipline. In doing so, they will also discuss their own practice of publishing.’
This event is held in the frame of Miss Read/ Berlin Art Book Festival, 3-5 May 2019.
Thanks to WBI / WBA for contributing to the travel expenses.
Read our short presentation of Terrazzo #1–10 on the Publishing in Architecture website archive. Here a few slides.
28 MARCH — 30 APRIL 2019
Exhibition and student works
Accattone is part of the biennale Exemplaires, formes et pratiques de l’édition in Rennes, École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne. It was researched by a group of MA students in typography of ERG École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels (tutors Manuela Dechamps Otamendi, Renaud Huberlant).
Earlier this year we’ve held seminars and workshops with students at ERG, La Cambre Arts Visuels, ENSA Marne-la-Vallée, ENSA Versailles.
7 NOV 2018
Talk
Guided tour to Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s exhibition Kunststoff – Gallery of Material Culture, whose work with his postcards collection is featured in Accattone #2.
JULY 2018
Research
We joined research programmes with many fellows and invited contributors at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
JUNE 2018
Trip
We travelled to Tokyo, Kyoto and Yoshino and visited Teshima, Naoshima and Inujima islands to meet with architects, artists, historians and institutions. We presented the magazine and prospected for future projects. A grant from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation helped us to cover the expenses.
27 MAY 2018
Round table
ROUND TABLE: CSU in Motion
Unfolding Pavilion
Gino Valle social housing
Calle dei Lavraneri (Giudecca)
30133 Venezia
Keynote: Beatriz Colomina
Round table: Accattone, Alfa, Amor Vacui Studio, Argonauti, BLITZ Archimagazine, Carnets, Ermanno Cavaliere, CHIASMO, Conformi, Devenirs, Etaoin Shrdlu, Enrico Forestieri, From outer space, Argenzia Cristina Gallotta, Alberto Benetti Genolini, Järfalla, Malapartecafè, Giulia Ricci
Moderators & Organizers: Fabio Cappello, Rossella Ferorelli, Luigi Mandraccio, Gian Luca Porcile
26 MAY 2018
Launch
DOUBLE BILL:
ACCATTONE #5 + OASE #100
Bruno Bookshop, Venice, 6—8pm
Meet Armin Linke and the editors during the Architecture Biennale opening days.
On view: Accattone #1 — #5, OASE #100
Exhibition in a box: Five pictures by Armin Linke
Talk: Pictures from Corporate Arcadia commented by Armin Linke in conversation with the editors.
8 MAY 2018
Lecture
Lecture on Accattone and other architecture magazines at Bauhaus Weimar, hosted by Horizonte magazine.
6 MAY 2018
Book fair & talk
Conversation on photography, architecture and publication with Erica Overmeer. Miss Read book fair, Berlin.
25 APR 2018
Lecture
“Major to Minor (Architecture, Photography and the Printed Page)” at the Figurations conference, The Bartlett, London.
29 MAR 2018
Launch & projection
Presentation of Accattone #5 at the WTC Tower, 26th floor, Brussels.
Exhibition in a box: five pictures by Armin Linke (limited edition)
Film screening: Armin Linke’s Alpi (more info)
Presentation: Accattone #5 and Corporate Arcadia
Magazines for sale & drinks
7 — 22 DEC 2017
Exhibition & talks
Corporate Arcadia travels to TU Delft (NL) with an associated lectures series hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Management in the Built Environment. More info.
16 NOV — 3 DEC 2017
Exhibition
The second edition of A PRINT, curated by Studio Nock, will take place at ArkDes, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm.
“A PRINT is a collection, an open archive and an exhibition of independent architecture publications and zines. The ambition is to promote and showcase alternative publications for innovative commentary and criticism on architecture. These publications are an important contribution to the architectural discourse, allowing for independent, mainly non-profit, editors to cover a broader range of topics than what is custom in conventional architectural magazines.”
NOV 2017
Republished
Originally published in Accattone #1 with the title ‘1:1 Scale Models’, our conversation with Christiane Lange, Paul and Johannes Robbrecht on their 2013 project to reenact Mies van der Rohe’s Golf Club in Krefeld has been included in Robbrecht en Daem’s monograph An Architectural Anthology.
8 — 9 NOV 2017
Talk & exhibition
The exhibition V+ Architecture Documents on Five Projects, curated by Accattone editors, is on show at KTH from 9 November onwards.
Accattone and the catalogue of the exhibition will be presented on Wed 8 Nov at Konst/ig bookshop in Stockholm, with photographer Maxime Delvaux and V+ architects Thierry Decuypere and Jörn Bihain. (photos Maxime Delvaux)
8 SEPT 2017
Talk
Panel talk and book fair at the Nacht van de architectuur, deSingel, Antwerp.
With Carlo Menon (Accattone), Françoise Fromonot (Criticat), Sandra Bartoli & Silvan Linden (AG Architektur in Gebrauch), Pier Vittorio Aureli (DOGMA), Lisa De Visscher (A+). Moderated by Bart Decroos & Mathilde Breukink (VAi Flanders Architecture Institute).
23 JUNE — 24 SEPT 2017
Exhibition
Accattone was invited to curate the first exhibition of the new Contemporary Architecture Department at the CIVA Foundation, Brussels.
Corporate Arcadia looks at what is usually disregarded by architecture culture: the corporate architecture of banking headquarters, office buildings and hotels that has mostly shaped the city of Brussels in the 1990s and early 2000s.
It does so with a twist:
1/ Armin Linke’s photographic work from inside the Corporate Arcadia reveals the hidden activities of fifteen institutions and at the same time ‘restores beauty to these invisible sites’, overlapping architecture, interior design and social functions.
2/ Magazine excerpts and videos offer thematic insights and counterpoints in the form of seven ‘double figures’, letting emerge multiple dimensions and critical knots.
3/ Models and documents retrieved on site or from the architects’ archives are called to perform as embodied figures on a stepped theatre of objects: if their position is static, the concepts they carry are mobile, open to interpretation and recombination.
(press kit / photos Silvia Cappellari)
5 — 31 MAY 2017
Exhibition
Accattone is part of FIAMME. Fifty contemporary magazines: art, fashion, architecture and design. IUAV, Venice. Curated by Mario Lupano, Saul Marcadent and Camilla Salvaneschi. (photo Augusto Maurandi)
10 — 28 MAY 2017
Exhibition
Accattone is part of A PRINT. An open archive of architecture publications. Studio Nock, Gothenburg, Sweden. (photos Samuel Petersson)
14 — 16 APRIL 2017
Book fair
Index Architecture book fair, Museo Jumex, Mexico City. In collaboration with Book, People, Places (Berlin).
25 FEB 2017
Talk
Lecture at Festival d’Architecture, Liège.
7 DEC 2016
Lecture
Lecture series “Bâtiment Machine?” at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Düsseldorf.
13 OCT 2016
Lecture and workshop
Public presentation within CCA’s research project Talking Pictures, with Stefano Graziani and Yasufumi Nakamori + 8 international researchers, Montreal.
23 SEP 2016
Launch & talk
Launch of Accattone #4 at Deborah Bowmann, Brussels.
Bedroom Talk with 51N4E architects Freek Persyn & Johan Anrys.
9 — 11 SEP 2016
Book fair
Preview of Accattone #4 at Artists Print V, Brussels
(also hosting Cédric Libert’s BlackWhiteRainbowProductions and the book Objets Immanents)
27 MAY 2016
Round table
Round-table conversation on architectural publishing at the Belgian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale.
With OASE, Criticat, aDVVT, De Smet Vermeulen, 51N4E, Office KGDVS & others.
4 — 7 FEB 2016
Book fair & round table
Accattone at the first Index architecture book fair. Panel discussion with Frida Escobedo and Giovanni Piovene (San Rocco) at Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
12 SEP — 6 DEC 2015
Exhibition
Invited contribution to the group exhibition The Corner Show at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, with Accattone #3 and ‘Sanstitres’ by La Ville Rayée.
7 OCT 2015
Launch
Launch of Accattone #2 and #3 with architects Sébastien Martinez Barat and Benjamin Lafore at Volume bookshop, Paris.
28 — 30 SEP 2015
Lecture
Lecture at the international academic conference The Site of Discourse. Thinking Architecture Through Publication, Lisbon.
15 SEP 2016
Lecture
Lecture “Architecture in the Second Degree” at ICA London, within the exhibition “Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s”.
12 — 13 SEP 2015
Book fair
Independent book fair Artists Print IV by Komplot and JAP. “Selling solutions for no problems” at BRASS, Brussels.
13 MAY 2015
Lecture
Modulor’s lecture series “Faking Fiction – Unbuilt Realities” at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp.
8 — 31 OCT 2014
Exhibition
Accattone is part of the Archizines World Tour starting from ETH Zurich, gta exhibitions.
10 JUN 2014
Round table
Round table on periodicals organised by the Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs, Brussels.
11 APR 2014
Launch & talk
Launch of Accattone #1 with a lecture by Anne Holtrop on “Material Gesture” at Etablissement d’en face, Brussels.
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12 OCT 2024
Book fair
Join us at Lille Archi Market to check out our full catalogue and find slightly damaged copies of sold-out issues, posters and rarities.
Free entry, 10am–6pm
Bazaar St So, 292 rue Camille Guérin, Lille
5–6 OCT 2024
Book fair
Join us at Wiels Art Book Fair this weekend to have a copy of To Koenraad Dedobbeleer. Warmly, Pierre Leguillon signed by the two artists (Saturday at 4pm), as well as surprise publications by our friends Simon Boudvin and Ultrabagarre. On Sunday at 2pm we’ll have a blind date with art book publisher Avarie (auditorium). As usual, throughout the fair you’ll be able to check out our full catalogue and find slightly damaged copies of sold-out issues.
Free entry, Sat 11am–7pm and Sun 11am–6pm
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels
12 JUNE 2024
Talk
Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini and members of Dogma and Office KDGVS will discuss the legacy of Villa Baizeau at CIVA Brussels, in a double-bill book launch moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch: Véronique Boone’s book Le Corbusier on Camera and our recent Simple Architecture (still in stock… get the last copies!).
CIVA Brussels, 7–9pm
free entry
(more info)
25 MAY 2024
Launch
Accattone #8 launch and sale this Saturday afternoon at Bar à Nelson in Brussels, with ‘Grande Dépression’, a talk/performance by artist Clément Hébert, contributor to this issue.
Bar à Nelson, Av. Wielemans-Ceuppens 128, 5–8pm
12 MAR – 13 MAY 2024
Exhibition
The exhibition High Tech Low Tech stems from the consideration that any building designed according to the currently dominant architectural principles is ‘zombie’, non-living, as it is based on technologies and energies that will soon be exhausted or too costly for the planet. This zombie perspective invites us to reconsider the way we approach architecture, to ‘de-project’ it by reappropriating the tools of thinking and doing.
By taking technology out of the ghost of innovation, the exhibition looks at techniques that emerge from hybrid, localised, living cultures, based on knowledge and skills – between engineer and bricoleur – that are transferred and contaminated across disciplines and social groups. Neither high-tech nor low-tech, these experiments represent a sample of minoritarian but fertile approaches that can help us to rethink our relationship with the built environment and architectural practice.
Guest curator Sophie Dars with the participation of Carlo Menon
Archizoom curator Roxane Le Grelle with the collaboration of Solène Hoffmann
Monday to Friday, 9:30–17:30
Archizoom, EPFL Lausanne
free entry
(more)
Events: Opening lecture by Sophie Dars (Monday 11 March, 18:30, fr/en) / ‘Impure Tech’: Alexandre Monnin in discussion with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Monday 25 March, 18:30, fr) / Screening of La vie en kit (Life Assembled) and discussion with filmmaker Élodie Degavre (Monday 15 April, 18:30, fr/en) / Guided tour by the curators (Monday 22 April, 17:00, fr) / ‘Wild Tech’: Nicolas Nova in discussion with Tiphaine Abenia (Monday 22 April, 18:30, fr) / Guided tour by the curators (Monday 6 May, 17:00, en) / ‘Milieu Tech’: Victor Petit in discussion with Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon (Monday 6 May, 18:30, fr)
Flyer design Sophie Wietlisbach
Exhibition pictures Solène Hoffmann
2–4 FEB 2024
Book fair
All issues of Accattone, books and special prints on display – and some for sale – at Artists Print XI, at Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
13 DEC 2023 – 31 JAN 2024
Exhibition
The project ‘Magasin/Magazine’ by Accattone editors Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon and their guests is part of the exhibition Émulations, curated by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Benjamin Lafore and Sébastien Martinez-Barat at Académie des beaux-arts, Paris. The exhibition also displays the three other original projects selected after an open call on the theme of ‘Écriture’ (Writing): ‘Spolia’ by Estelle Barriol / Studio ACTE, ‘L’attrape-rêves’ by CompMonks and ‘L’Usage de l’Espace’ by Max Turnheim. Thank you all for letting us try this new experiment on the slippages between editorial and architectural project.
10 NOV 2023
Talk
Presentation to the second-year students in architecture at La Cambre Horta.
6–7 NOV 2023
Book fair
Accattone #7, Écoles troubles, Solar Club and ephemera such as an invite for Baukunst and Villa Thunberg’s poster were on sale at Archizoom, EPFL Lausanne.
29 JUNE 2023
Launch
We are very happy about Château de Chambord, Dilmun Burial Mounds, Jože Plečnik, Río Tinto, Victor Horta, the book project we have been developing with long-time friends and frequent collaborators Maxime Delvaux and Architecture Curating Practice, distributed by co-publisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König: it’s a beauty!
Book launch in Brussels at et al., an architect-run space managed by Architecture Curating Practice, from 6pm.
JUNE 2023
Launch
Écoles troubles – Penser, éditer, spatialiser la controverse is out!
It contains texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatialized by Accattone together with the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles.
20 MAY 2023
Talk
During the Venice Biennale opening days, round-table conversation with Italian magazines Stoà and Urbano, organized by Reading Room in collaboration with Combo (next day: Vesper, ADH, Panteon, Sicilia). Ex Convento dei Crociferi Campo dei Gesuiti, Cannaregio 4878, Venice from 6pm.
17 APRIL 2023
Talk
Join Sophie Dars and Sébastien Martinez-Barat, co-founder of MBL Architects, in the conversation ‘Form, Language, Relation’, about the aesthetics of relationships, and the potential for a new, more delicate, more ambitious and more contemporary language – both constructive and aware of the multiple relational fields that shape the habitat. In the frame of the exhibition Sympoiesis. Arts of practice in the ecological city, Archizoom at EPFL Lausanne.
18–19 MAR 2023
Talk & Book fair
Join us at Wiels Art Book Fair (Brussels) to check out our full catalogue, a few copies of sold-out issues taken from our archives, and a talk on ‘little’ architecture magazines, ‘Critical Editorial Devices / Architecture in the Second Degree’ (Sunday 19 at 1pm, auditorium).
3–5 FEB 2023
Book fair
All issues of Accattone on display and some for sale at Artists Print X, at Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels. Thank you JAP!
30 JAN – 3 FEB 2023
Workshop and talks
19–22 JAN 2023
Talk & Book fair
Accattone at the sixth Index Art Book Fair at Kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico City, titled ‘La traducción como transformación de territorios’. Our talk is on Saturday 21 Jan, 2–3pm. Travelling was possible thanks to the genereous support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International and WB Architectures.
15 DEC 2022
Talk
Presentation of the forthcoming one-week workshop led by Accattone at ENSA Versailles, with a digression on independent publishing as a means to think, edit and spatialize the debate.
29 NOV 2022
Talk
Public discussion on ‘Printing Architecture’ with Leonard Streich (Something Fantastic), Carlo Menon and Sophie Dars (Accattone), moderated by Mari Hvattum and Paul-Antoine Lucas within the cycle ‘(RE)acting/(EN)acting – Collective Dissidence, Reclaiming the Neighborhood’, an academic forum of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) for the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and elaborated in collaboration with the Fall 2022 Guest Lecture Series at AHO. (link and live streaming)
26–27 NOV 2022
Book fair
Accattone at the guest table of SPRINT 22—Independent Publishers & Artists’ Books Salon at Spazio Maiocchi, Milano.
17 OCT 2022
Talk
Lecture on Corporate Arcadia at UGent.
7 OCT 2022
Talk
Panel talk ‘Drawing and Architecture’ with Francis Carpentier (CIVA), Carlo Menon and Eva Le Roi, moderated by Constance Hautier and curated by Marion Adrian, within the drawing art fair Art on Paper, Brussels.
11 MAY 2022
Talk
Lecture on Accattone #6 and 7 to MA students of the seminar ‘Vegetation and Buildings: The Agency of Plants in the City’ (Sandra Bartoli). Hochschule München, Faculty of Architecture.
15–17 APR 2022
Talk
Panel talk on architectural publications, with editors of Delphi and Failed Architecture, moderated by Katharina Benjamin and Angelika Hinterbrandner (KNTXTR). YEAH! Festival of Architecture, organized by Philippe Nathan and Gianpiero Venturini at Kulturfabrik, Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).
30 MAR 2022
Talk
Lecture on Accattone #6 and 7 to MA students in architecture (Sabrina Puddu) and interior architecture (Stefanie Everaert & Caroline Lateur) at Serra — Un Soggiorno Segreto, Ghent (photo Stefanie Everaert).
10 MAR 2022
Talk
‘This BK Talks will discuss the present and future of editorial practices in design, bringing to the table a group of renowned professionals from the publishing world, moderated by members of student-run magazine of the BK Faculty, BNieuws. In the realm of design journals and publications, the current pandemic seems to have just accelerated the ongoing shift towards a more networked approach to the profession. In this context, publishers, editors and critics have had to rethink their position, realising that traditional ideas of “dissemination” do not always correspond to ways in which we currently gather information. On the one hand, the rise of more decentralised ways of publishing gave prominence to popular online platforms, where designers are able to upload their own content. However, this format can also result in an indirect manipulation by other interests beyond design. While adapting to a present where we can easily search for new designs on the web, some widely-read publications have been prioritising alternative content: more politically engaged, multi-disciplinary and discursive. While strongly contributing to opening up architectural discourse in profound ways, this is also an approach that might fail to deliver clear messages and ideas on the subject of design, especially to the general public. Is it significant to disseminate architectural knowledge and criticism to a mainstream public? If so, are we disseminating criticism throughout the right channels? How will the current transformations in the production and reception of information affect the format, as well as the content, of design publications?’
Moderators: Tuyen Le and Alessandro Rognoni. Panelists: Merel Pit, Mark Minkjan, Carlo Menon, Enrique Encabo, Andrej Radman. Video featurettes: Iker Gil, Nuria Moliner, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Ilka Ruby. TU Delft and online broadcast.
20–23 JAN 2022
Book fair
Accattone is part of the Index Art Book Fair at Kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City.
17 NOV 2021
Talk
Presentation of Accattone #6 and #7 within the doctoral seminar “SYLVA – Ripensare la « selva ». Verso una nuova alleanza tra biologico e artefatto, natura e società, selvatichezza e umanità” (Rethink the sylvan. Towards a new alliance between biology and artificiality, nature and society, wilderness and humanity). With an introduction by Juan Lopez Cano and Andrea Pastorello, and responses Carmen Andriani, Manuel Gausa, Davide Servente. Scientific supervisors Alberto Bertagna and Massimiliano Giberti, University of Genoa.
8 NOV 2021
Launch
Book launch of Objects of Fascination within the eponymous exhibition at MAD Brussels, where some of the stories behind the tables will be presented by their authors: Gaétan Brunet (UR), Francelle Cane (PhD Luxemburg), Sophie Dars (Accattone), Ambra Fabi (Piovenefabi), Dieter Leyssen (51N4E), Jasper Stevens (Felt), Nelson Van Campenhout (GiustoVanCampenhout).
22–24 OCT 2021
Book fair
All issues of Accattone, Grand Dessein du Rationalisme and the last few copies of Five Stories of São Paulo will be on display and for sale at Artists Print IX, at Brass, Brussels. Opening Friday 22, 5–9pm.
14 OCT – 7 NOV 2021
Exhibition
The planted model that we created last year for the Villa Noailles is on display at CIVA within the exhibition Institution Building, curated by Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski and Cédric Libert.
Opening Thursday 14 October at 19:00, with a talk by Accattone and Plant & Houtgoed.
On show until 7 November, free
Villa Thunberg is a project by Accattone magazine (Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele) in collaboration with architects Alice Nouvet, Alice Paris, Camille Pons and Plant & Houtgoed (Jeroen Deseyn, Nicolas Vandenplas). More info here.
13 OCT 2021
Launch
Book launch of Grand Dessein du Rationalisme at the EPFL Lausanne, where it originated, with a lecture on little magazines. Also streamed online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/98002141257
23 SEP –14 NOV 2021
Exhibition
The exhibition Objects of Fascination is on show at MAD Brussels. A book published by Accattone and Architecture Curating Practice will soon be available.
This collective project of 45 table designs was initiated by CENTRAL (Radim Louda, Paul Mouchet & Valentin Piret), Maxime Delvaux and UR (Chloé Valadié & Gaétan Brunet). More info here.
10–12 SEP 2021
Book fair
A Puta da Leitura, a curated pop-up book store organised by Antecâmara Radio and Gallery together with Julia Albani.
“Concerned with publishing in architecture and curious about diverse perspectives taking shape of a book, a magazine or a newspaper, we invite you to join us for three days of A PUTA DA LEITURA at Antecâmara. Coinciding with the Lisbon Book Fair’21, we invited a group of publishers with a selection of three titles each, on view and available here, at the pop-up book store.”
3 JULY 2021
Talk
Domesticity and Hospitality, a day-programme of events at C-Mine, Genk, within the framework of Le Paysage Ménagé. Curated by CIAP and FLACC, with a presentation of Accattone #7 and an artist talk by Ciel Grommen & Maximiliaan Royakkers (link).
1 JULY 2021
Talk & exhibition
Round-table conversation ArchiZines Review Ep. 02, curated by Järfälla, within the New Generations Festival 2021 at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Participants: Jacquard (IT), Traccia (IT), Vuoto, Orizzontale (IT), Accattone (BE), Delphi (CH).
21–22 MAY 2021
Launch
Accattone #7 launch at Ca’Bu, Venice, within the Biennial Books event. “A selection of the latest, the newest, architecture, and Biennale related publications, with 2038 / German Pavillion (de), Accattone (be), Arch+ (de), Arts of the Working Class (de), CIVA (be), Gato Negro (mx), Het Nieuwe Instituut / Exploratorium (nl), Institutions (de), Misantropzine (be), O Book Publisher (nl), Other Forms (usa/de), Roma Publishers / Experimental Jet-Set (nl), Silvestre (mx), Sorry Press (de), Sternberg (de), Superpositions (ch), Valiz (nl), Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck (be), and others.”
9 MAR 2021
Talk
Discussion on Accattone with Reading Room’s principal Francesca Spiller, as the 20th episode of the series Periodica Ossessione, on independent periodicals. Broadcasted on the Italian radio station Radio Raheem.
27 FEB 2021
Talk
Presentation of Accattone from the angle of “Restriction”, this year’s theme of the student-run initiative Ateliers Nocturnes. La Cambre Horta faculty of architecture, Brussels (where some of us teach).
16 FEB 2021
Talk
Presentation of Accattone and the actual development of the project to the residents of the Villa Medici, in Rome, following an invitation by our friend and artist Simon Boudvin, who has just published a beautiful study of an invasive plant in his neighbourhood (Ailanthus Altissima, éditions B42).
29 JAN 2021
Republished
Our conversation with Quentin Nicolaï on his exploration of sacred forests in South Benin, published in Accattone #6, is now featured on the Drawing Matter website. Your can read it online here.
2 DEC 2020
Talk
Talk on Accattone #6 and Villa Thunberg at a seminar with Sébastien Marot and Djamel Klouche, ENSA Versailles.
1 OCT 2020
Talk
As the first occurrence of a series of talks on ‘inhabiting the world’, we present a reflection on holding a public library at the entrance of an art space, together with a selection of books and magazines (check the poster). CIVA / Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels.
SEPT 2020
Republished
Our visit to Pierre Leguillon’s Museum of Mistakes, published in Accattone #4, ended up as a ‘Guided Tour’ in the first pages of his beautiful monograph published by Patrick Frey.
1–28 AUG 2020
TV Hack
After the lockdown, Accattone’s website has been hacked for several weeks by channel 2038 of space-timeTV. The perpetrators have issued the statement on the right.
SUMMER 2020
Text
Alongside other design, curatorial and editorial practices, we were asked to contribute to the issue #175 of Plan Libre with an image and a thousand words on our ‘doubts and enthusiasms’ on architecture (in French). The magazine is edited by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Joanne Pouzenc and published by the Maison de l’Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées.
20 MAY 2020
Issues #1–4
We weren’t keen on circulating PDFs as our magazine is meant to be experienced in print, but for what is worth, PDF versions of all the sold-out issues are now available for a small amount on our website.
6–8 MAR 2020
Book fair
All issues of Accattone, Villa Thunberg’s poster and Five Stories of São Paulo will be on display at Artists Print VIII, at Brass, Brussels.
4 MAR 2020
Launch
Launch of Eva Le Roi & Pierre Burquel’s book Five Stories of São Paulo at Speculoos, Brussels.
8 FEB – 15 MAR 2020
Exhibition
Accattone takes part in the group show Houses for Superstars. Hypermediated architecture at Villa Noailles in Hyères, France.
Six architecture practices were invited to choose a ‘superstar’ and design a villa in the form of a model or an installation. Following-up from the themes explored in issue #6, Accattone and its team present a territorial, post-sedentary ‘villa’ dedicated to the tutelary figure of Greta Thunberg, that confronts the changing climate regime through the human, plant and animal migrations it entails.
(see Villa Thunberg’s page)
A project by Accattone magazine (Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele) in collaboration with architects Alice Nouvet, Alice Paris, Camille Pons and Plant & Houtgoed (Jeroen Deseyn, Nicolas Vandenplas). Produced by Accattone, Plant & Houtgoed and Villa Noailles with the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures.
23–26 JAN 2020
Book fair
Accattone is guest at Index Art Book Fair at kurimanzutto art galley, Mexico City. Thanks to the organisers and to Erica Overmeer (O Book Publisher) who once again brought the copies with her from Europe.
(press release)
21 NOV 2019
Launch, talk
Accattone #6 will be presented in its home town at La Loge, a space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture and theory.
6pm: guided tour of the ongoing exhibition by Rotor, Life under a cherry tree
7pm: presentation of Accattone #6 by the editorial team and some contributors
8pm: drinks & copies
5 OCT 2019
Launch, talk & projection
Artist-run space Ampersand hosts Accattone during the Lisbon Triennale opening days.
– Presentation of Accattone #6
– Artist talks by Simon Boudvin and Giaime Meloni on their photographic encounters with, respectively, wild plants in the urban fabric and urban fabrics in contemporary deserts
– Projection of Christopher Roth’s movie Architecting after Politics
– Drinks & copies
Travel supported by WBI Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
26 SEPT — 24 NOV 2019
Exhibition
Accattone #6 is on display at the Oslo Architecture Triennale’s core exhibition, The Library.
25 SEPT 2019
Book launch
Launch of Accattone #6 and Simon Boudvin’s Un Nouveau Musée at Volume bookshop, Paris.
7 SEPT 2019
Launch
Un Nouveau Musée is the title of a book by the first-ever contributor to our magazine, Paris-based artist Simon Boudvin, on his intervention at the Folklore Museum in Mouscron, Belgium. The book is co-published by Accattone and MER.Paperkunsthalle (sales here).
6 — 8 SEPT 2019
Book fair
Preview of Accattone #6 and Un Nouveau Musée at the first Architecture and Landscape Book Fair, in Brussels, organised by CIVA in partnership with the WIELS Art Book Fair.
7 MAY 2019
Lecture
‘Accattone as Journey’, lecture within the cycle ‘Learning from’ organised by OSA, the student association of Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
3 MAY 2019
Book fair & round table
Accattone is invited at the conference Publishing in Architecture, organised by ARCH+.
‘Introduced by Mark Wigley (Columbia University) and moderated by Francisco Moura Veiga (A FORSCHUNG / CARTHA Magazine/ETH Zurich) and Anh-Linh Ngo (ARCH+, Berlin), the symposium brings together an international panel to discuss publishing as an alternative spatial practice. Sandra Bartoli (Architektur im Gebrauch, Berlin), Olaf Grawert (Brandlhuber+/ ETH Zürich), Cédric Libert (CIVA Foundation, Brussels), Carlo Menon & Sophie Dars (Accattone, Brussels), Erica Overmeer (Impresión Mexicana, Index Architecture/Index Art Book Fair, Mexico and Berlin) and Mirko Zardini (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal) will present one publication—not necessary of their own making—and discuss why it's relevant for them personally and for the discipline. In doing so, they will also discuss their own practice of publishing.’
This event is held in the frame of Miss Read/ Berlin Art Book Festival, 3-5 May 2019.
Thanks to WBI / WBA for contributing to the travel expenses.
Read our short presentation of Terrazzo #1–10 on the Publishing in Architecture website archive. Here a few slides.
28 MARCH — 30 APRIL 2019
Exhibition and student works
Accattone is part of the biennale Exemplaires, formes et pratiques de l’édition in Rennes, École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne. It was researched by a group of MA students in typography of ERG École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels (tutors Manuela Dechamps Otamendi, Renaud Huberlant).
Earlier this year we’ve held seminars and workshops with students at ERG, La Cambre Arts Visuels, ENSA Marne-la-Vallée, ENSA Versailles.
7 NOV 2018
Talk
Guided tour to Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s exhibition Kunststoff – Gallery of Material Culture, whose work with his postcards collection is featured in Accattone #2.
JULY 2018
Research
We joined research programmes with many fellows and invited contributors at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
JUNE 2018
Trip
We travelled to Tokyo, Kyoto and Yoshino and visited Teshima, Naoshima and Inujima islands to meet with architects, artists, historians and institutions. We presented the magazine and prospected for future projects. A grant from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation helped us to cover the expenses.
27 MAY 2018
Round table
ROUND TABLE: CSU in Motion
Unfolding Pavilion
Gino Valle social housing
Calle dei Lavraneri (Giudecca)
30133 Venezia
Keynote: Beatriz Colomina
Round table: Accattone, Alfa, Amor Vacui Studio, Argonauti, BLITZ Archimagazine, Carnets, Ermanno Cavaliere, CHIASMO, Conformi, Devenirs, Etaoin Shrdlu, Enrico Forestieri, From outer space, Argenzia Cristina Gallotta, Alberto Benetti Genolini, Järfalla, Malapartecafè, Giulia Ricci
Moderators & Organizers: Fabio Cappello, Rossella Ferorelli, Luigi Mandraccio, Gian Luca Porcile
26 MAY 2018
Launch
DOUBLE BILL:
ACCATTONE #5 + OASE #100
Bruno Bookshop, Venice, 6—8pm
Meet Armin Linke and the editors during the Architecture Biennale opening days.
On view: Accattone #1 — #5, OASE #100
Exhibition in a box: Five pictures by Armin Linke
Talk: Pictures from Corporate Arcadia commented by Armin Linke in conversation with the editors.
8 MAY 2018
Lecture
Lecture on Accattone and other architecture magazines at Bauhaus Weimar, hosted by Horizonte magazine.
6 MAY 2018
Book fair & talk
Conversation on photography, architecture and publication with Erica Overmeer. Miss Read book fair, Berlin.
4 — 6 MAY 2018
Book fair
Frances Horn brings Accattone to Acid Free book fair in Los Angeles.
25 APR 2018
Lecture
“Major to Minor (Architecture, Photography and the Printed Page)” at the Figurations conference, The Bartlett, London.
29 MAR 2018
Launch
Presentation of Accattone #5 at the WTC Tower, 26th floor, Brussels.
Exhibition in a box: five pictures by Armin Linke (limited edition)
Film screening: Armin Linke’s Alpi (more info)
Presentation: Accattone #5 and Corporate Arcadia
Magazines for sale & drinks
9 — 11 MAR 2018
Book fair
Preview of Accattone #5 at Artists Print VI, Brussels
7 — 22 DEC 2017
Exhibition & talks
Corporate Arcadia travels to TU Delft (NL) with an associated lectures series hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Management in the Built Environment. More info.
16 NOV — 3 DEC 2017
Exhibition
The second edition of A PRINT, curated by Studio Nock, will take place at ArkDes, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm.
“A PRINT is a collection, an open archive and an exhibition of independent architecture publications and zines. The ambition is to promote and showcase alternative publications for innovative commentary and criticism on architecture. These publications are an important contribution to the architectural discourse, allowing for independent, mainly non-profit, editors to cover a broader range of topics than what is custom in conventional architectural magazines.”
NOV 2017
Republished
Originally published in Accattone #1 with the title ‘1:1 Scale Models’, our conversation with Christiane Lange, Paul and Johannes Robbrecht on their 2013 project to reenact Mies van der Rohe’s Golf Club in Krefeld has been included in Robbrecht en Daem’s monograph An Architectural Anthology.
8 — 9 NOV 2017
Talk & exhibition
The exhibition V+ architecture documents on five projects, curated by Accattone editors, is on show at KTH from 9 November onwards.
Accattone and the catalogue of the exhibition will be presented on Wed 8 Nov at Konst/ig bookshop in Stockholm, with photographer Maxime Delvaux and V+ architects Thierry Decuypere and Jörn Bihain (photos Maxime Delvaux)
8 SEPT 2017
Talk
Panel talk and book fair at the Nacht van de architectuur, deSingel, Antwerp.
With Carlo Menon (Accattone), Françoise Fromonot (Criticat), Sandra Bartoli & Silvan Linden (AG Architektur in Gebrauch), Pier Vittorio Aureli (DOGMA), Lisa De Visscher (A+). Moderated by Bart Decroos & Mathilde Breukink (VAi Flanders Architecture Institute)
23 JUNE — 24 SEPT 2017
Exhibition
Corporate Arcadia. Accattone was invited to curate the first exhibition of the new Contemporary Architecture Department at the CIVA Foundation, Brussels.
Corporate Arcadia looks at what is usually disregarded by architecture culture: the corporate architecture of banking headquarters, office buildings and hotels that has mostly shaped the city of Brussels in the 1990s and early 2000s.
It does so with a twist:
1/ Armin Linke’s photographic work from inside the Corporate Arcadia reveals the hidden activities of fifteen institutions and at the same time ‘restores beauty to these invisible sites’, overlapping architecture, interior design and social functions.
2/ Magazine excerpts and videos offer thematic insights and counterpoints in the form of seven ‘double figures’, letting emerge multiple dimensions and critical knots.
3/ Models and documents retrieved on site or from the architects’ archives are called to perform as embodied figures on a stepped theatre of objects: if their position is static, the concepts they carry are mobile, open to interpretation and recombination.
(press kit / photos Silvia Cappellari)
5 — 31 MAY 2017
Exhibition
FIAMME. Fifty contemporary magazines: art, fashion, architecture and design. IUAV, Venice. Curated by Mario Lupano, Saul Marcadent and Camilla Salvaneschi (photo Augusto Maurandi)
10 — 28 MAY 2017
Exhibition
A PRINT. An open archive of architecture publications. Studio Nock, Gothenburg, Sweden (photos Samuel Petersson)
19 — 23 APRIL 2017
Art fair
Independent Brussels art fair, with Gagarin and MER. Paper Kunsthalle
14 — 16 APRIL 2017
Book fair
Index Architecture book fair, Museo Jumex, Mexico City. In collaboration with Book, People, Places (Berlin)
25 FEB 2017
Talk
Festival d'Architecture, Liège
7 DEC 2016
Lecture
Lecture series “Bâtiment Machine?” at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Düsseldorf
13 OCT 2016
Lecture and workshop
Public presentation within CCA’s research project Talking Pictures, with Stefano Graziani and Yasufumi Nakamori + 8 international researchers, Montreal
23 SEP 2016
Launch and talk
Launch of issue #4 at Deborah Bowmann, Brussels.
Bedroom Talk with 51N4E architects Freek Persyn & Johan Anrys
9 — 11 SEP 2016
Book fair
Preview of issue #4 at Artists Print V, Brussels
27 MAY 2016
Round table
Round-table conversation on architectural publishing at the Belgian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale.
With OASE, Criticat, aDVVT, De Smet Vermeulen, 51N4E, Office KGDVS & others.
20 APR 2016
Lecture
Presentation within the Book of Copies exhibition at Sint-Lucas, Brussels
4 — 7 FEB 2016
Book fair and round table
Accattone at the first Index architecture book fair. Panel discussion with Frida Escobedo and Giovanni Piovene (San Rocco) at Museo Jumex, Mexico City
12 — 15 NOV 2015
Book fair
Art publishing fair Offprint Paris at Beaux-arts
12 SEP — 6 DEC 2015
Exhibition
Invited contribution to the group exhibition The Corner Show at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp
7 OCT 2015
Launch
Launch of Accattone #2 and #3 with architects Sébastien Martinez Barat and Benjamin Lafore at Volume bookshop, Paris
28 — 30 SEP 2015
Lecture
Lecture at the international academic conference The Site of Discourse. Thinking Architecture Through Publication, Lisbon
18 SEP 2016
Lecture
“Architecture in the Second Degree” for Belgian magazine A+
15 SEP 2016
Lecture
“Architecture in the Second Degree” at the ICA London, within the exhibition “Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s”
12 — 13 SEP 2015
Book fair
Independent book fair Artists Print IV by Komplot and JAP. “Selling solutions for no problems” at BRASS, Brussels
5 SEP 2015
Launch
Launch of Accattone #2 in our new office space in Brussels
18 MAY 2015
Lecture
Lecture at ENSAP Lille, History Theory Mediation module
13 MAY 2015
Lecture
Modulor’s lecture series “Faking Fiction – Unbuilt Realities” at Extra City, Antwerp
8 — 31 OCT 2014
Exhibition
Accattone is part of the Archizines World Tour starting from ETH Zurich, gta exhibitions
10 JUN 2014
Round table
Round table on periodicals organised by the Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs, Brussels
29 MAY 2014
Launch
Launch of Accattone #1 at Betts Project, London
11 APR 2014
Launch
Launch of Accattone #1 with a lecture by Anne Holtrop on “Material Gesture” at Etablissement d’en face, Brussels
21 — 23 MAR 2014
Book fair
Accattone #1 on preview at Artists Print III, Brussels