Éric Lapierre

Working across built practice and digital representation, this session explores how architecture engages the ordinary as a critical ground rather than a limitation. A slight shift—formal, constructive, or visual—is enough to unsettle it: in Yanfei Architects, banal landscapes produced by economic efficiency and everyday building logics become a field from which to read and reconfigure the contemporary environment in China; in Éric Lapierre, typologies and conventions are displaced just enough to produce a surprise that holds over time; in Jean-Jacques Balzac, digitally generated images introduce a subtle misalignment in recognizable environments, altering their reading and making their underlying codes visible.