PAUL LE QUERNEC / ARCHITECTES

Graduated in October 2000, Paul Le Quernec has established his company in Strasbourg (France) in January 2003. Since 2005 the company has been working almost exclusively on public equipment and markets. Nowadays, the company has fives to seven employees and builds throughout France. Our projects constitutes critical and discerning responses to the typical box architecture whose poverty is hidden underneath eye-catching construction materials or fashionable textures. Using simple rules of geometry, we design complex forms and volumes that we build with common and cheap materials. For us, the luxury is not a matter of surface area or materials but a matter of volume and forms. Materials have been invented to freely give shape to our thoughts and not the reverse.