Accattone

Accattone explores minor practices in art and architecture through the specific means of the printed magazine. As an exhibition on paper, each issue is a montage of contributions whose shared positions towards reality, history and representation resonate with one another.
In the current landscape of non-commercial publications, Accattone's originality lies in the strong visual orientation and in the close association of methods, editorial devices and featured contents. Through these experiments, crossing the methods of artists-as-iconographers with emerging architectural practices, Accattone addresses critically a fundamental aspect of thinking and practice: the working document and the changing status of the image.
A-periodical, self-published in Brussels by two architects (Sophie Dars & Carlo Menon) and two graphic designers (Ismaël Bennani & Orfée Grandhomme), Accattone has gained international recognition and distribution in both professional and academic contexts, including the first Index Architecture Book Fair (Mexico City), the Venice Biennale, the ICA (London) and the CCA (Montreal).

Accattone is also an editorial platform publishing monographic and collective books.
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10 titles
 
Accattone
2024
English edition
Accattone #8 addresses matters of construction in relation to time, use, change and technical knowledge against the backdrop of the "negative commons" inherited from the productivist society of the past century—"zombie" habits, desires, products and processes that our contemporary condition can no longer sustain, yet cannot help but reproduce.
Simple Architecture - The Villa Baizeau in Carthage By Le Corbusier and Jeanneret
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
(last copies available!)
A dialogue between architectural history and design, in homage to Le Corbusier's theoretical vision behind the construction of the Villa Baizeau in Carthage.
Écoles troubles - Penser, éditer, spatialiser la controverse
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
A journal gathering texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatilized by the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles and the editors of the magazine Accattone.
Objects of Fascination
2021
English edition
45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.
Accattone
2021
English edition
Accattone #7 deals with open-air domesticity and the diplomatic hospitality of land. It presents intellectual and architectural projects, both contemporary and historical, for alternative modes of living.
Simon Boudvin - Un nouveau musée
2019
French edition
Simon Boudvin brings a narrative but also political depth to the architectural project of building the new museum of folklore in Mouscon.
Grand Dessein du Rationalisme
2021
texts in English and French
sold out
A hybrid publication that gathers 18 architecture projects from the student collectives of Roberto Gargiani's Superstudio at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 2020–2021, and a series of 13 theoretical, practical and historical reflections on (antagonist) rationalism in architecture.
Éva Le Roi - Five Stories of São Paulo
2020
English edition
sold out
A project by Éva Le Roi & Pierre Burquel (drawings and sketches of São Paulo); hand drawings by Éva Le Roi.
Accattone
2019
English edition
sold out
Accattone #6 explores a renewed relationship with land, matter, “nature” and localities against the backdrop of the new climatic regime.
Armin Linke - Accattone
2018
English edition
sold out
Based entirely on the work of Armin Linke, Accattone #5 explores photography in relation to the major architecture of public and private institutions: the infrastructure of the Roman Empire, neoclassical Athens, the United Nations headquarters, neo-liberal corporate environments and the fragile European institutions in Brussels.
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