Caryatide / Cosa Mentale

Caryatide is a platform for reflection on architecture, art and design. Using different media, it promotes a curious and open attitude based on sharing and exchange. Whether through objects, images or words, it always seeks to extend the debate, to expand it. Collaborative, Caryatide weaves links between people, disciplines and knowledge.
Caryatide has its roots in Cosa Mentale, whose continuity it ensures, and is keen to continue along the path of rigour and high standards, in terms of both form and content.
Caryatide is directed by Claudia Mion, accompanied by Simon Campedel, Antoine Stevenot and Thibault Lambert. The scientific committee of the editorial project Cosa Mentale is composed by: Simon Campedel, Fréderic Einaudi, Mathias Gervais de Lafond, Baptiste Manet, Claudia Mion, Giacomo Ortalli and Simon Vergès.
 
Paris
caryatide.org
 
37 titles
Series:
 
Laurent Stalder - Un dessin n\'est pas un plan
Laurent Stalder
Un dessin n'est pas un plan
2023
French edition
forthcoming
Ugo Bienvenu - Lorem Ipsum - French Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023
Ugo Bienvenu
Lorem Ipsum – French Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
An architectural fiction that takes the form of a photo novel, born from the meeting between an author, Ugo Bienvenu, and the architects of the French Pavilion of the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Peter Märkli - Dessins, disegni
Peter Märkli
Dessins, disegni
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
An in-depth study of Peter Märkli's work through an extensive body of 700 drawings by the Swiss architect, with eight essays.
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
Adriano Olivetti
Écrits et discours
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
Line Fontana & David Fagart - Renewing the City from Within
Line Fontana & David Fagart
Renewing the City from Within
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
A reflection by the architects of Fagart & Fontana on the renewal of the city from within and more specifically on the processes of transformation and adaptation of existing collective housing to new needs and lifestyles.
Martial Manet - Album Architecture - Abidjan
François-Xavier Gbré, Baptiste Manet, Martial Manet
Album Architecture – Abidjan
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
An iconographic work on the modern architecture of Abidjan which aims to offer a photographic survey of thirty buildings representative of the chosen moment of architecture that followed independence.
Giorgio Peghin - Voyages en Sardaigne - Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
Giaime Meloni, Giorgio Peghin
Voyages en Sardaigne – Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Voyages en Sardaigne (Travels in Sardinia) is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. This first part proposes an itinerary through the mining landscapes of Sulcis-Iglesiente, exploring soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of this territory marked by an industrial history.
Bruno Queysanne - Sur la projettation - Pour une pragmatique architecturale
Bruno Queysanne
Sur la projettation – Pour une pragmatique architecturale
2022
French edition
Through a careful reading and etymology of architectural treatises, from Vitruvius to Vittone, Bruno Queysanne reveals a little-known aspect of these "classical" texts, in which architects leave aside their learned and dogmatic rhetoric to give us pragmatic advice about the realization of the architectural work.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Point de vue sur l\'architecture - Dialogue. Protopiro et Didascalo
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Point de vue sur l'architecture – Dialogue. Protopiro et Didascalo
2022
French edition
The first French edition of the theoretical dialogue of the Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), one of the most radical texts in the history of modern architectural theory.
Pier Vittorio Aureli - Less is Enough - Sur l\'architecture et l\'ascétisme
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Less is Enough – Sur l'architecture et l'ascétisme
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
David Klemmer - Dixit - On process
Jan Kinsbergen, David Klemmer
Dixit #04 – On process
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
The fourth issue of the critical review Dixit, in which the words of the architects Jan Kinsbergen and David Klemmer confront each other, in the format of a dichotomous visual atlas, around the theme of the process.
Bernard Quirot - Simplifions
Bernard Quirot
Simplifions
2022
French edition
In this writing, French architect Bernard Quirot carries a reflection on his theoretical foundations and evokes, through his architectural journey, a critical vision of the increasing complexity of the world.
Richard Venlet - Dixit - Still Life / Nature Morte
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Richard Venlet
Dixit #03 – Still Life / Nature Morte
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
The third issue of the critical review Dixit in which the words of the architectural practice OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and the Brussels artist Richard Venlet confront each other around the theme of "Still Life".
Roberto Masiero - Une machine à penser - La maison de Paros de Silvia Gmür et Livio Vacchini
Roberto Masiero
Une machine à penser – La maison de Paros de Silvia Gmür et Livio Vacchini
2022
French edition
A reflection on the relationship between architecture, art, philosophy and politics based on the house of Paros by Silvia Gmür and Livio Vacchini, a real "thinking machine" offering a lesson of architecture.
Valerio Olgiati - Architecture Non-Référentielle
Valerio Olgiati, Markus Breitschmid
Architecture Non-Référentielle
2022
French edition
French edition of Valerio Olgiati's and Markus Breitschmid's widely acclaimed manifesto for a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references: a must-read for anyone interested in architecture today.
José Ignacio Linazasoro - La mémoire de l\'ordre - Les paradoxes du sens dans l\'architecture moderne
José Ignacio Linazasoro
La mémoire de l'ordre – Les paradoxes du sens dans l'architecture moderne
2021
French edition
First French translation of the essay of the Spanish architect José Ignacio Linazasoro.
Fosco Lucarelli - Database Network Interface
Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli
Database Network Interface
2021
English edition
In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, Database, Network, Interface explores architecture's historical role in representing and organising information and knowledge.
BAUKUNST - Pensées
BAUKUNST
Pensées
2021
French edition
A portrait of the Belgian architecture office BAUKUNST founded by Adrien Verschuere.
Spectre - Contemporary Ruins
Spectre #03 – Contemporary Ruins
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
After the first two issues Mineral Pornography and Vegetal Trauma, the 3rd issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins.
Yony Santos - Dixit - A Matter of Data
Yony Santos, Marina Otero Verzier
Dixit #02 – A Matter of Data
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Second issue of the critical magazine Dixit in which the words of the architect Yony Santos from the swiss architecture practice TYPICALOFFICE and of Marina Otero Verzier, director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), confront each other around the theme of “A Matter of Data”.
Elisa Valero Ramos - La théorie du diamant et le projet d’architecture
Elisa Valero Ramos
La théorie du diamant et le projet d’architecture
2021
French edition
First publication of the essay of the Spanish architect Elisa Valero Ramos.
Carlos Martí Arís - Variations of Identity - Type in architecture
Carlos Martí Arís
Variations of Identity – Type in architecture
2021
English edition
First English translation of the seminal essay on type in architecture by Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís.
Carlos Martí Arís - Les variations de l\'identité - Le type en architecture
Carlos Martí Arís
Les variations de l'identité – Le type en architecture
2021
French edition
First French translation of the seminal essay on type in architecture by Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís.
Laurent Stalder - Dixit - Hyperconfort / Hypercomfort
Bruther, Laurent Stalder
Dixit #01 – Hyperconfort / Hypercomfort
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
First issue of the critical magazine published by Cosa Mentale, in which the words of the architecture practice Bruther and of Laurent Stalder, professor of architecture history at ETH, confront each other around the theme of “hypercomfort.”
Dominique Putz - Les figures architectoniques - La construction logique de la forme architecturale
Dominique Putz
Les figures architectoniques – La construction logique de la forme architecturale
2020
French edition
Architectural shape is the interface where form and meaning meet and communicate. In this perspective the research addresses the decoding of the shape of buildings, cities and landscapes.
Carlos Martí Arís - Eloquent Silences - Writings on Art and Architecture
Carlos Martí Arís
Eloquent Silences – Writings on Art and Architecture
2020
English edition
It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.
Livio Vacchini - Disegni / Dessins / Drawings
Livio Vacchini
Disegni / Dessins / Drawings
2017
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
This volume looks at a central aspect of Livio Vacchini's research: his drawings. The publication gives an overview of the Swiss architect's work with an unpublished selection of drawings—plans, cross sections, and facades. It also features an essay by architect Roberto Masiero.
Ivry Serres - L\'œuvre des matières
Ivry Serres
L'œuvre des matières
2017
French edition
A poetic exploration of the mechanisms of thought in the act of building.
Classeur - Le Mythe de Pierre
Classeur #01 – Le Mythe de Pierre
2016
French edition
The first issue of Classeur, a theoretical journal of architecture.
Luca Merlini
La Traversée de ma bibliothèque
2023
French edition
forthcoming
An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.
Maria Bottero - Forays beyond the Modern - The Architecture of Umberto Riva
Maria Bottero
Forays beyond the Modern – The Architecture of Umberto Riva
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
currently out of stock
An anthology.
Peter Märkli - In Search of a Language - A Journey through Peter Märkli\'s Imaginary
Giorgio Azzariti, Peter Märkli
In Search of a Language – A Journey through Peter Märkli's Imaginary
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
A rereading of the work of the Swiss architect.
Carlos Martí Arís - Silences éloquents
Carlos Martí Arís
Silences éloquents
2019
French edition
currently out of stock
It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.
Luigi Snozzi - L\'architecture inefficiente
Luigi Snozzi, Fabio Merlini
L'architecture inefficiente
2016
French edition
currently out of stock
Conversations between Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi and the philosopher Fabio Merlini.
Spectre - Vegetal Trauma
Spectre #02 – Vegetal Trauma
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
This unedited issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to share their interpretation of vegetal trauma.
Spectre - Pornographie minérale
Spectre #01 – Pornographie minérale
2018
French edition
sold out
A collective photographic series focusing on the on the subject of agalmatophilia—the sexual attraction for statues.
Classeur - Mare Nostrum
Classeur #02 – Mare Nostrum
2017
French edition
sold out
Second issue of the theoretical journal of architecture, devoted to the Mediterranean area.
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