“To think out of the box: to think imaginatively using new ideas instead of traditional or expected ideas.” If AA borrows from the vocabulary of start-ups to name its new issue, it is not to promote ‘offbeat’ thinking, but rather to review the different paths taken by architects, artists and experts to break away from the norm, which is sometimes defined too far from the realities of the world. We have analysed the various movements of this ‘de-standardisation’ at work in France and elsewhere. Here and here, architects are also becoming developers, to escape the standards that impose an environment designed far from to the reality of families; others are proposing to ‘de-assign’ housing, and to give residents the opportunity to rearrange rooms to suit their needs; some are building in the earth, opposed to the country standards... However, this does not mean becoming an ‘anarchitect’, an ‘anarchist’ architect who would flout regulations and laws, but it’s rather about proposing solutions that start from the standard, distort it and adapt it to the measures of the world.

ART Kate MccGwire, Art in Feathers
SCIENCE One Size Fits All? How the Body is the Ultimate Standard
REPRESENTATION The Atlases of Éric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier
LIVING WORLDS When Artists Plant Forests

PROFILE Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai: Craftsmanship, First and Foremost
HERITAGE In Japan, the Team Zoo and its Proposals
for a Counter-Metabolism Movement
DRAWING Drawings as Graphic Novels, by Jean-Benoît Vétillard
PHOTOGRAPHY Looking Back at Luigi Snozzi, by Luc Boegly
EXPERTISE Patrick Bouchain’s Method
BUILDINGS Compagnie architecture (FR), Peris+Toral Arquitectes (ES),
Plan Común (FR), Boltshauser Architekten (CH),
Junya Ishigami+associates (CN)

AND ALSO ... through the eyes of Elmgreen & Dragset; AA’s selection of current exhibitions and latest books; design, the Campus MaNa, Bourgogne; Awarded French architect Simon Teyssou’s speech; the history of the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique told by Jean-Claude Raspiengeas; new building by Coldefy & Associés, Atelier FCJZ, Fondation de Chine, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris; The Reuse Notebooks and the Art of Leftovers.

“To think out of the box: to think imaginatively using new ideas instead of traditional or expected ideas.” If AA borrows from the vocabulary of start-ups to name its new issue, it is not to promote ‘offbeat’ thinking, but rather to review the different paths taken by architects, artists and experts to break away from the norm, which is sometimes defined too far from the realities of the world. We have analysed the various movements of this ‘de-standardisation’ at work in France and elsewhere. Here and here, architects are also becoming developers, to escape the standards that impose an environment designed far from to the reality of families; others are proposing to ‘de-assign’ housing, and to give residents the opportunity to rearrange rooms to suit their needs; some are building in the earth, opposed to the country standards... However, this does not mean becoming an ‘anarchitect’, an ‘anarchist’ architect who would flout regulations and laws, but it’s rather about proposing solutions that start from the standard, distort it and adapt it to the measures of the world.

ART Kate MccGwire, Art in Feathers
SCIENCE One Size Fits All? How the Body is the Ultimate Standard
REPRESENTATION The Atlases of Éric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier
LIVING WORLDS When Artists Plant Forests

PROFILE Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai: Craftsmanship, First and Foremost
HERITAGE In Japan, the Team Zoo and its Proposals
for a Counter-Metabolism Movement
DRAWING Drawings as Graphic Novels, by Jean-Benoît Vétillard
PHOTOGRAPHY Looking Back at Luigi Snozzi, by Luc Boegly
EXPERTISE Patrick Bouchain’s Method
BUILDINGS Compagnie architecture (FR), Peris+Toral Arquitectes (ES),
Plan Común (FR), Boltshauser Architekten (CH),
Junya Ishigami+associates (CN)

AND ALSO ... through the eyes of Elmgreen & Dragset; AA’s selection of current exhibitions and latest books; design, the Campus MaNa, Bourgogne; Awarded French architect Simon Teyssou’s speech; the history of the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique told by Jean-Claude Raspiengeas; new building by Coldefy & Associés, Atelier FCJZ, Fondation de Chine, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris; The Reuse Notebooks and the Art of Leftovers.