Lecture : Architects and artists as publishers

Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, architects and co-founders of the journal Accattone, took centre stage in a conversation with Brussels-based artist and editor Pierre Leguillon.

Entitled “Architects and artist-editors”, the discussion offered a collective reflection on the role of publishing within contemporary architectural and artistic practices.

Accattone: an editorial practice between research and making

Since 2013, Brussels-based architects Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon have developed a practice that bridges theoretical research, publishing, teaching and project making.

As co-founders of the journal Accattone, they explore modes of representation, reading devices and editorial forms that expand the understanding of contemporary spatial practices.

Winners of the 2023 Architecture Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, they teach at La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture (ULB) and at the Peter Behrens School of Arts (Düsseldorf), grounding their work in a continuous dialogue between theory and practice.

Pierre Leguillon: images in circulation as raw material

A multifaceted artist, Pierre Leguillon builds his practice around the production, reproduction and assemblage of images.
His vast iconographic collection, gathered within the Musée des Erreurs, questions how images circulate, shift and reconfigure throughout art history.

The conference was part of the “About authorship & collaborations” series organised by the École d’architecture de Paris-Est, which invites reflection on new forms of collective authorship and on the relationships between disciplines in contemporary architectural production.