Book Signing Event for the Launch of “May ’68: Architecture Speaks”
© Éditions de la Villette
Caroline Maniaque, Éléonore Marantz, and Jean-Louis Violeau, the editors of the book, will present this collection of interviews—recently published by Éditions de la Villette—at the Volume bookstore. The event will be followed by a social gathering over drinks.
May ’68: Architecture Speaks
, Caroline Maniaque, Éléonore Marantz, and Jean-Louis Violeau (eds.)
With interviews by Ginette Baty-Tornikian, Philippe Boudon, Jean Castex, Roland Castro, Henri Ciriani, Pierre Clément, Jean-Louis Cohen, Florence Contenay, Monique Eleb, Olivier Girard, Thierry Gruber, Bernard Huet, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Gil Leparmentier, Yves Lion, Jacques Lucan, David Mangin, Michel Marot, Philippe Panerai, Bernard Paurd, Christian de Portzamparc, Bruno Queysanne, Paul Quintrand, Alain Sarfati, Yannis Tsiomis and Françoise Very.
Collection: Thinking About Space
Release date: May 2026
This collection of interviews tells the collective story of May 68 in the world of architecture. Twenty-seven architects, urban planners, engineers, sociologists, historians, civil administrators and activists from diverse intellectual and political backgrounds testify. Involved, in one way or another, in this moment of historical upheaval, they recount their individual and shared trajectories, and the changes in which they took part. Indeed, the period from 1962 to 1977 saw a major generational renewal, a refounding of teaching and research frameworks with the creation of new institutions – from architecture teaching units to the Institut de l’environnement, via CORDA – but also a significant reorientation of architectural and urban practice. Gathered and commented by Caroline Maniaque, Éléonore Marantz and Jean-Louis Violeau, curators of the Mai 68 : l’architecture aussi! exhibition at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in summer 2018, this polyphonic account captures so many facets of a founding past that still resonates.
Featuring interviews with Ginette Baty-Tornikian, Philippe Boudon, Jean Castex, Roland Castro, Henri Ciriani, Pierre Clément, Jean-Louis Cohen, Florence Contenay, Monique Eleb, Olivier Girard, Thierry Gruber, Bernard Huet, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Gil Leparmentier, Yves Lion, Jacques Lucan, David Mangin, Michel Marot, Philippe Panerai, Bernard Paurd, Christian de Portzamparc, Bruno Queysanne, Paul Quintrand, Alain Sarfati, Yannis Tsiomis, and Françoise Very.
