13. Hortus Allegoricus

Lucie Garzon graduated from the Versailles School of Architecture, spending a year of her course at Rio de Janeiro’s Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning. She started out by working on projects for Taillandier Architectes Associés in Toulouse, before setting off to Bogota to work with Taller Rizomas Arquitectura y Paysaje. Back in Paris, she added a year at Versailles’ School of Landscape to her CV, confirming a unique awareness in her professional practice that guides her personal reflections, and her ongoing need to work the land.

Fanny Costecalde started off her student days at Toulouse’s School of Architecture. She then spent an exchange year in Lima and went on to graduate from Paris-Belleville National School of Architecture. With her degree in her pocket, she joined Pierre-Louis Falcon’s agency, where she worked as project manager on urban and public-facility operations. Alongside her professional activities, she joined the 48°N collective and then created Autenta, an architectural workshop focusing on design of private commissions and art installations. She is a contract teacher of the “Theory and practice of architectural and urban design” at first-year project workshops at the Paris-Belleville school.

After obtaining a qualification as architectural assistant, Guillaume Wittmann continued his studies at Strasbourg’s School of Architecture. Once he had graduated, he joined the Dominique Coulon & Associés agency, where he worked as manager of public facility projects, overseeing them from bid to delivery. As he is drawn to working directly with materials, he intersperses his professional activities with small-scale personal projects that he carries out under his own steam.

Marion Hawecker started out as a student of applied arts and continued her training at Strasbourg’s School of Architecture. After she graduated, she worked with the Architectes & Associés agency in Strasbourg as project manager, overseeing public facility programmes from design to completion. In parallel, she continued to try out various graphic depiction techniques and developed an interest in arts and crafts, finally settling on feathers as her means of expression. She set off to Paris to take a sandwich course in feather work at Maison d’Art Lemarié. She continues to perfect her knowledge of the plumassier’s art at the same craft house.

Antoine Eschlimann began by studying civil engineering. He went on to enrol in Nancy’s School of Architecture, from which he graduated, and joined the Richter Architectes & Associés agency in Strasbourg, where he ended up as project manager. Following this experience, his interest in craftsmanship, woodwork in particular, led him to train as a cabinetmaker at École Boulle in Paris. He is currently complementing the skills he learned there by taking a sandwich course in a cabinetmaking workshop.