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«Finding the essence of the matter» is what Karine Herman and Jérôme Sigwalt, who co-founded the K ARCHITECTURES agency in 2000, desire most. By «essence of the matter», the architects are not referring to a way of life or even the materials they use. lt is not so much asceticism which fascinates them, but rather depth or the very fact of the materials they use. They reler to pragmatic, sometimes industrial or military, architecture, often semi-vernacular, «where nothing need be removed or added to be struck by the power of the work». The K ARCHITECTURES associates are thus on a quest for unvarnished emotion. As such, materials are at the heart of their work. While they are wary of bias towards certain materials, Karine Herman and Jérôme Sigwalt nevertheless have a soft spot for those which provide a medium for working with mass and which defy the passage of lime. «We believe that an edifice must be meaningful throughout the centuries, including when it has been reduced to ruins.»
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«Finding the essence of the matter» is what Karine Herman and Jérôme Sigwalt, who co-founded the K ARCHITECTURES agency in 2000, desire most. By «essence of the matter», the architects are not referring to a way of life or even the materials they use. lt is not so much asceticism which fascinates them, but rather depth or the very fact of the materials they use. They reler to pragmatic, sometimes industrial or military, architecture, often semi-vernacular, «where nothing need be removed or added to be struck by the power of the work». The K ARCHITECTURES associates are thus on a quest for unvarnished emotion. As such, materials are at the heart of their work. While they are wary of bias towards certain materials, Karine Herman and Jérôme Sigwalt nevertheless have a soft spot for those which provide a medium for working with mass and which defy the passage of lime. «We believe that an edifice must be meaningful throughout the centuries, including when it has been reduced to ruins.»
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