Édouard François   France   With its anachronic superposition of building types, languages and materials, this social housing block suggests a surrealist exquisite corpse of sorts.

Édouard François   France   Located amid the trees of a small park, in the Norman town of Louviers, 100 kilometers from Paris, the project aims to preserve the quiet and delicate character of the place, paying heed to the quality and comfort of the dwellings, as well as to the

Édouard François   France   El restaurante Fouquet’s, inaugurado en 1899 en la intersección de los Campos Elíseos con la elegante avenida George V, se ha ido convirtiendo a lo largo de sus más de cien años de existencia en una auténtica institución parisina. Adquirido por el gr

Édouard François   France   This buiding, a nine-story block covered with vegetation, overlooks a park in the northern area of Paris. It is part of the ZAC of Porte d’Asnières – an area of subsidized development –, which has been coordinated by the studio of Christian de Portza

Édouard François   France   Situated in the center of Montpellier, along the Lez River, this 64-unit residential building lets the vegetation of a nearby park spread to it, its facade becoming the geological substratum of a vertical garden. With a curved floor plan, the structu

Building and planting seem to be for Edouard François part of the same process, as the projects of this Frenchman born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1957 are but the substrata of three-dimensional gardens that mediate between the users and the environme