Antoine Vialle

Antoine Vialle
Period: 2010-2011
Profession: Architect Antoine Vialle was born in Lyon in 1983. In 2007, after studying at the École Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Belleville, he obtained his diploma in architecture, with a project entitled “TROIS HORIZONS –
Regeneration of an agricultural right-of-way northwest of Paris”, under the supervision of Patrick Berger. He also wrote a Master’s thesis entitled “LA FORME; HERZOG ET DE MEURON –
Un tout culturel et urbain”, under the supervision of Françoise Fromonot. Today, Antoine Vialle practises his profession as an architect, striving to link theoretical research with the practice of architectural and urban design. Two questions/obsessions polarize his work: How can we capture, read and write contemporary territories and spaces today? Is
form, even broken form, still a notion that enables us to grasp the monumental dimension of an object, an architectural element or a city? Antoine Vialle, resident in architecture at the Académie de France in Rome, will be staying at Villa Médicis for twelve months, starting in April 2010, to carry out the “ROME –
Relevé d’une forme par ses limites” project. The subject of this series of urban portraits is the Aurelian Wall, and represents an experiment in the means available to architects today to
(se) represent the city. Embedded within Rome, the Aurelian Wall – broken object, monument, infrastructure – is a boundary that is no longer a boundary. In this way, it reveals the elliptical, discontinuous and fragmentary nature of the city, characteristic of a certain state of contemporary territory.