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
 
43 titles
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Jan Kinsbergen - Plates
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A visual, experimental research on the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes in the format of a folded manifesto. Drawings, images and texts by Jan Kinsbergen, Neven Kostic and David Klemmer.
 Ganko - Glasraum
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Gilles Perraudin - Les jours sont ronds
2024
French edition
forthcoming
The story / manifesto of an architect's life: a rereading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself.
Luca Merlini - La traversée de ma bibliothèque
2024
French edition
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.
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado - Le mur - Concept essentiel dans le projet architectonique : la matérialisation de l\'idée et l\'idéalisation de la matière
2024
French edition
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado expounds here his conception of architecture by exploring the notion of the wall in four major buildings through drawing and words.
Laurent Stalder - Un dessin n\'est pas un plan et autres essais
2023
French edition
This collection does not propose a theory of architectural drawing, but brings together seven essays (written over the last fifteen years), which explore the potential of architectural drawing during the 20th century, through seven modes of representation: plan, section, arrow, grid, images, diagram, drawing.
 Muoto - Holy Highway
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
A collection of texts, projects and images by the Parisian architecture studio on the subject of the highway, the most radical public space ever imagined, but also the most divisive and criticized today, questioning our relationship with modernity.
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Chefs-d\'œuvre
2023
French edition
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
David Klemmer - Dixit - 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
2022
French edition
currently out of stock
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
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
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
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
2021
French edition
First French translation of the essay of the Spanish architect José Ignacio Linazasoro.
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
2021
French edition
A portrait of the Belgian architecture office BAUKUNST founded by Adrien Verschuere.
Maria Bottero - Forays beyond the Modern - The Architecture of Umberto Riva
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
currently out of stock
An anthology.
Spectre - 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
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
2021
French edition
First publication of the essay of the Spanish architect Elisa Valero Ramos.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
2017
French edition
A poetic exploration of the mechanisms of thought in the act of building.
Fabio Merlini - L\'architecture inefficiente
2016
French edition
currently out of stock
Conversations between Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi and the philosopher Fabio Merlini.
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