Architecture for Disquiet Bodies - Didier Fiúza Faustino

Architecture for Disquiet Bodies - Didier Fiúza Faustino

For almost thirty years, Didier Fiúza Faustino has been working on the relationship between body and space in a variety of artistic dimensions. From architecture to design, by way of installations, experiments, videos and artworks in public spaces, the artist-architect’s oeuvre includes over 270 projects on various scales. Some are architectural in nature, some are purely artistic. But they all are characterized by their critical perspective on architecture, often revealing the limits of bodies in normative, constricted spaces.

“Architecture for Disquiet Bodies” offers a comprehensive overview on the French-Portuguese conceptual architect. In essays, Faustino’s own texts and richly illustrated explorations of 30 selected projects, the book investigates unique creations that place the body at the center of an architect’s concern. It includes a full catalog of Didier Fiúza Faustino’s works.

About Didier Fiúza Faustino

Didier Fiúza Faustino (*1968) is an artist-architect working on the relationship between body and space. He is the director of Bureau des Mésarchitectures, an architecture studio based in Paris and Lisbon. Faustino graduated from the Paris-Villemin School of Architecture in 1995. Since then, he has worked at the crossroads of art and architecture, developing a multi-faceted approach that ranges from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture, and buildings. Faustino was editor-in-chief of CREE (2015-2016), taught at the Architectural Association AA in London and is regularly invited to lecture at universities and institutions. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide.