TVK is an international architecture and urban design office. Pursuing a theoretical and built approach, we aim to capture the complexity and the paradoxical nature of the contemporary earthly situation, to contribute to making it habitable and desirable. TVK was founded in Paris in 2003 by Pierre Alain Trévelo and Antoine Viger-Kohler.
Like an Adolescent City
It is possible to see the construction of Thiers’s city wall in 1845 as the starting point of the modern adventure for Paris and the beginning of the building of the Parisian metropolis. Originally, the military rampart was a wall in the midst of fields, but one which founded a new city and an administrative boundary which today still defines an inside and an outside, a centre and a periphery…