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. TVK was founded in Paris in 2003 by Pierre Alain Trévelo and Antoine Viger-Kohler.
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The Mediterranean in the middle of the Sea
The Mediterranean Sea, a space where some of the most powerful forms of urban living were born is today a vertiginous place. The Sea is at the same time bathing spot and place of death, a burning border between north and south.
Ground architecture
It is vital to look back on Gordon Matta-Clark’s work, among other reasons, to highlight little-known facets of a shape-shifting oeuvre. The exhibition “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect”, and the accompanying catalogue, do so by revealing Matta-Clark as truly engaged in his era, concerned with the nameless, the have-nots of his time
Paris’s inner suburbs form an urban ring that has its own existence and definition: a clearly legible space, a periphery, la ville du Périphérique [The Ring Road City]: a vast metropolitan open space