Simon de Dreuille

Simon de Dreuille
Period: 2013-2014
Profession: Architect Simon de Dreuille was born in 1980. He is an architect with his practice in Paris. He has worked for AUC with Djamel Klouche, Caroline Poulin and François Decoster on urban and territorial problems with a forward-looking approach. He has collaborated with “Frog Magazine” as associate editor for architecture. He has taught at the Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture (
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais ). Within the framework of his residence at Villa Medici Simon de Dreuille is developing the project
PIANTE I PIANTE that will bring him to draft a map of the city of Rome as a case study focalizing on its plants and climatic indices. It has become more appropriate to describe cities not only from their form with a classical representation – plans or maps – but rather from the way they are inhabited, intending the term ‘inhabited’ in a broader sense: how one looks for a home, how one works, travels, interacts with people and objects.  Everyday events are inscribed in an urban continuum which is sufficiently coherent in its description to avoid anecdotes; where plants occupy a particular space: house plants, palm trees in country villas, rows of trees on networks of avenues, especially in Rome like all cities touched by the Mediterranean climate.