Stephanie Beck, Aviary, 2010

Five artists who use paper to create their designs – Béatrice Coron, Mathilde Nivet, Peter Callesen, Ingrid Siliakus and Stephanie Beck – are displaying their work in the exhibition ‘Architectures de papier’, on show at the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine in Paris. Through folding, cutting, glueing or assembly, they go across the second dimension, creating enclosures that reproduce historical buildings or shape imaginary cities. This technique based on the study of spatial structures was already used at the Bauhaus in 1925 as an educational resource, and was further developed by the Japanese architect Masahiro Chatani, its main representative, in the 1980s...[+]