Lecture by Sophie Dars & Carlo Menon (ACCATTONE) and Pierre Leguillon (artist)

mardi 04 novembre 2025
à 13:00
conférence
amphithéâtre

Conceived as a conversation between collaborators and partners, the conference explores the role of the editor as a creative and critical stance within architectural and artistic practice. This stance coexists with, comments on, and sometimes challenges the figure of the author upon which these disciplines have been founded for centuries. We will reflect on our direct experiences with our respective projects, the journal Accattone and the Museum of Errors, as well as other more ad hoc projects, such as the reading space at the future Kanal / Centre Pompidou in Brussels. We will also discuss projects led by others that inform our practices as architects and artist-publishers.

Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon are architects based in Brussels. Since 2013, they have been collaborating on a practice situated at the intersection of theoretical research, publishing, education and project development. They are notably co-founders of the journal Accattone and winners of the 2023 Architecture Competition organised by the Academy of Fine Arts. They teach project design at the La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture (ULB Brussels) and representation in the Civic Design Master’s programme at the Peter Behrens School of Arts (HSD Düsseldorf).

Pierre Leguillon is an artist. After studying Fine Arts at the University of Paris 1–Panthéon-Sorbonne, he began his career as a publisher and art critic. A multifaceted artist, he works primarily on the production and reproduction of images, of which he possesses a large collection, now brought together in his Museum of Mistakes, based in Brussels (The Museum of Mistakes, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, 2020).
His work has been exhibited notably at the Louvre (Paris, 2009), at Mamco (Geneva, 2010), the Moderna Museet (Malmö, 2010), and more recently at Wiels (Brussels, 2015), the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris, 2019) and the Frye Museum (Seattle, 2019), Emmelines (New York, 2025).
He teaches at HEAD – Geneva.

Series
Proposed by architects and lecturers Anne Klépal and Philippe Vander Maren, the Tuesday Lectures series About authorship & collaborations explores architecture as a collective and transdisciplinary practice, where hybridisation and multiple collaborations profoundly redefine the making of the project and the ways in which we inhabit the world.