My architecture focuses on the relation between two countries; on one hand the country where I was born: France, my origin, and on the other hand the one where I live and work: Mexico, my inspiration.

I titled this work : Concordance, in which I explore through my different architecture projects some subjective similarities I found between the bunkers of Normandy, where I come from, with the prehispanic mexican temples and pyramids. This relation between those two, a priori, disconnected worlds became my personal architectural signature and started to define a singular aesthetic.

I explore the common points of monolitism and monomateriality, stone versus concrete, of those two different kinds of architecture, both blinds and based on such an elemental architecture artefact, the wall. However it’s the time and the common condition of ruins shared by bunkers and pyramids which link them on top of everything. The ruin is this contradiction of the time which has passed, but which is still remaining through the persistence of old elements from the past in our present, nevertheless in a state of recomposition.

This is precisely this property of time i’m using in my architecture, the time as if it would be a material, following the idea of stepping back to this old and simple concept of “the patina of time”. In an opposite way of thinking from the “everything throwaway mentality” of our modern societies, i’m looking for the same simplicity and authenticity i find in the vernacular architecture. This research of simplicity is leading me to create a clean and abstract architecture, composed exclusively by massive materials, such as concrete, wood and stone. All those materials are able to get old and better looking under the action of time, rather than getting damaged. My architecture is willing to get rid of the unnecessary, to concentrate on the very essence of the structure of the building, where architecture could offer a contemporary reinterpretation of what could mean vernacular. My vision of architecture focuses on changing people habits rather than looking for technological improvements, towards a more simple way of living with less necessities, to minimize our impact on the ecology of our planet.