A circle, a round, a square: these elementary geometric shapes were chosen by the typographer, town planner and architect Pierre Faucheux (1924-1999) to signify three practices that each, in their own way, question space. He moved from one to the other with passion, seeking to systematize, as he put it, a “writing of space” that this book explores.

The book highlights Pierre Faucheux’s various trajectories in an attempt to understand the back-and-forth between writing about space and the architecture of the book; between reading spaces and reading spaces.

This publication looks back at the history of the artistic director at Livre de Poche, who also worked with a large number of French publishers during the Trente Glorieuses (the thirty-year period of economic growth in France between 1945 and 1975, following the end of the Second World War): J.-J. Pauvert, Éditions Joëlle Losfeld, Le Seuil, Éditions Galilée.

Above all, this publication opens up a lesser-known part of Faucheux’s career, that of his adventures with the Surrealists, his practice of photo-collage and his architectural experiments. Reading Pierre Faucheux’s practice of space is done here by sharing voices, including his own, and by observing objects whose memory weaves a rich and plural whole.

Edited by Catherine Guiral with Brice Domingues

Designed by officeabc

Published by Éditions deux-cent-cinq, 2024
Texts in French and English

Softcover, 76 pages, b&w, 11 × 13.5 inches

ISBN: 978-2-91-938078-7