Collection “Savoir-faire”

For the past twenty years, Atelier du Rouget has been developing a patient approach to the heart of marginal areas and rural areas. Its projects come in all shapes and sizes, reflecting the extremely contrasting nature of these inhabited environments. Simon Teyssou, the company’s founder and recent winner of the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme and the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and his associates do not draw a clear dividing line between urban, architectural and landscape interventions, between construction issues and territorial, social and economic issues. In keeping with its cross-scalar approach, the Atelier du Rouget is on the contrary seeking to overcome the divisions that, undoubtedly even more so in rural areas, lead to the disappearance of the vital links and continuities that are essential to living.

Over the past two decades, and despite the diversity of the situations encountered, a genuine method has gradually been put in place, through trial and error, experimentation, and repetition, based on relationships of proximity and trust, exchange and education, organised around workshops, residencies and support.
    The village of Le Rouget has been used as a testing ground, and as an in situ research laboratory, exploring what’s possible and demonstrating that a rural village cannot be
reduced to the over-simplistic representations in which it is often confined.

This book presents a selection of projects based on sketches from Simon Teyssou’s notebooks, focusing on design processes where drawing plays an exploratory and inventive role.

Supported by Unité mixte de recherche Ressources and École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Clermont-Ferrand.

Authors: Simon Teyssou, Stéphane Bonzani
Translation: Ann Toffaleti
Format: 16 × 23 cm
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-2-919380-93-0
Parution: 2025
Languages: English, French
Domains: Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape
Price: €29