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Carlo Menon is an architect and a researcher in history and theory, with degrees from La Cambre, Brussels (diploma, 2006) and The Bartlett, London (MA, 2013, and PhD, 2023). His PhD thesis, ‘Critical Editorial Devices in a Minor Mode: Little Architecture Magazines of the Early Twenty-first Century’, supervised by Jane Rendell, explored the field of recent independent magazines as a site for theoretical and critical debate (c. 2008–2021). His collaborative practice, mostly with partner Sophie Dars, interweaves architectural thinking with publications (frequently), exhibitions (occasionally) and education (continuously). In particular he has developed writing and editorial skills, whose outputs mostly appear in the magazine Accattone, which they co-founded. Their project Magasin/Magazine, on the figure of the architect-editor, was awarded the 2023 architecture prize of the French Académie des beaux-arts. He authored the main essay of the catalogue/monograph Impasse des Lilas. Currently he teaches architectural design at La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture (ULB Brussels) and representation at the MA Civic Design (PBSA Düsseldorf).
(updated June 2025)
EDITORIAL WORK
Accattone, magazine on architecture. Co-founder, editor, publisher and distributor, with architect Sophie Dars and Überknackig graphic design studio, Brussels.
– Accattone #8 (May 2024), 180 p.
– Accattone #7 (Mar 2021), 196 p.
– Accattone #6 (Sep 2019), 228 p.
– Accattone #5 (Mar 2018), 132 p.
– Accattone #4 (Aug 2016), 148 p.
– Accattone #3 (Sep 2015), 8 p.
– Accattone #2, (Sep 2015), 164 p.
– Accattone #1, (Mar 2014), 92 p.
Building Correctly, by Francesca Torzo, with a conversation with Elizabeth Hatz and Ellis Woodman: editor, with Iwan Strauven (Brussels: Accattone and ACP / Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025), 192 p.
Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, by Francesca Torzo, with an essay by Christoph Grafe: editor, with Iwan Strauven (Brussels: Accattone and ACP / Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025), 256 p.
Impasse des Lilas, by MBL (Martinez Barat Lafore architects): editor, with S. Dars, and author of the main text following their 2022 exhibition at Arc en rêve, Bordeaux (Brussels: Accattone / Bordeaux: Arc en rêve, 2025), 252 p.
Flanders Architectural Review 16: Responses in Responsibility, ed. by Sofie De Caigny and Dennis Pohl: member of the editorial board to assess the projects to be visited and featured, and writer of short reviews and a longer essay, ‘An Editorial Mode of Practice’ (Antwerp: VAi, 2024).
Simple Architecture: Villa Baizeau in Carthage by Le Corbusier and Jeanneret, ed. by Roberto Gargiani, with multiple contributions: associate editor and text editor (Brussels: Accattone, 2024), 456 p.
Château De Chambord, Dilmun Burial Mounds, Jože Plečnik, Río Tinto, Victor Horta, by photographer Maxime Delvaux: text editor (Brussels / Köln: Accattone and ACP / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023), 208 p.
Écoles troubles #2: text editor (Brussels: Faculté d’architecture La Cambre Horta, 2024), 110 p.
Écoles troubles #1: Penser, éditer, spatialiser la controverse: editor, with Sophie Dars and Galaad Van Daele (Brussels: Accattone, 2023), 64 p.
Conversations on Concerns, by Roxane Le Grelle and Vinh Linh in conversation with architects Sean Godsell, Ryue Nishizawa, Smiljan Radic and Jo Taillieu: text editor, with S. Dars (on hold).
Motivi, by artist Simon Boudvin: text editor and translator (Amsterdam: Roma, 2022).
Grand Dessein du Rationalisme, by Roberto Gargiani and Marson Korbi, their students at EPFL Lausanne and 13 contributors: book and text editor (Brussels: Accattone, 2021), 64 p., in French and English.
Japan Works, by photographer Aglaia Konrad: text editor of Julian Worrall’s glosses (Amsterdam: Roma, 2021).
Un nouveau musée, by Simon Boudvin: text editor (Gent and Brussels: MER & Accattone, 2019), 112 p., in French.
Sources, by Simon Boudvin: book and text editor, with S. Dars (Mouscron: Musée de Folklore, 2019), 84 p., in French and Dutch.
Corporate Arcadia. Built Brussels After 1989, magazine produced within the eponymous exhibition: editor, with S. Dars, including several articles (Brussels: CIVA, 2017), 68 p.
V+ Architecture Documents on Five Projects, catalogue of the eponymous exhibition: editor, with S. Dars, including several texts and a conversation with the architects (Brussels: A+, Bozar and Lannoo, 2015), 192 p., in English, French and Dutch.
Guide pratique des marches d’architecture (practical guide to the organization of architectural competitions): concept, writing and production of a website with downloadable material, legal information and template files, 2012, in French (marchesdarchitecture.be).
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SELECTED WRITINGS
Essays, reviews, interviews and book chapters in (academic) books and periodicals.
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‘Impasse des Lilas’, title essay on MBL architects’ eponymous exhibition at Arc en rêve, Bordeaux, in Impasse des Lilas, ed. by Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon (Brussels: Accattone / Bordeaux: Arc en rêve, 2025).
‘Ghost Figures’, a conversation with Aïcha-Louise Wenger, Juliette Simeone and Amor Immeuble for the catalogue of their residency and exhibition Corporate Skincare at et al, Brussels (Brussels: Architecture Curating Practice, 2025).
‘An Editorial Mode of Practice’, essay and short reviews of several buildings for the Flanders Architectural Review 16: Responses in Responsibility, ed. by Sofie De Caigny and Dennis Pohl (Antwerp: VAi, 2024).
‘Glitch the Control Freak’, essay on minor photography, in Analogue Images: Recent work by Rory Gardiner and Maxime Delvaux, ed. by Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal, Urtzi Grau and Janelle Woo (Melbourne: Perimeter, 2024).
‘Écoles troubles’, Clara 9 (2024), pp. 186–194, review of two editorial workshops held with students and guests at ENSA Versailles and ULB La Cambre Horta in 2023.
‘High Tech Low Tech’, exhibition cartels and curatorial statement for the visitor’s guide of the eponymous exhibition at Archizoom, EPFL Lausanne (March 2024), all republished as a special insert in Accattone8 (May 2024), with S. Dars.
Editorial, ‘Life, Assembled’ (conversation with Élodie Degavre) and ‘For a Thousand Years’ (on Louis Le Roy, with Galaad Van Daele), Accattone8 (2024).
‘Architecte-éditeur·rice: Une entrevue avec Accattone’, interview by Antoine Angeard and Julien Jacob for the student-run magazine at EPFL Lausanne, L’Atelier22, Otherwise/Autrement (2024).
‘Architectes-éditeur·rices’, in 501 colonne d’acier HSS Round 5x0.250 C1, ed. by Sébastien Roy et Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre (Quebec: Grantham Foundation, 2024), with S. Dars.
‘At Present (in L.A.)’, in AHA, In Practice: A Travelogue by Leeke Reinders, ed. by Harold Fallon, Benoît Vandenbulcke and Benoît Burquel (Gent: MER, 2024), peer reviewed.
‘Magasin/Magazine’, project statement for the journal produced within the eponymous exhibition work (2023, republished Brussels: Accattone 2025).
‘Nieuw Zuid’, review of Johannes Norlander’s building Block 16 in Antwerp for the magazine Arkitektur3 (2023). Also published in Norlander’s monograph Håvn (Stockholm: Brutem, 2023).
Preface of Roberto Gargiani’s Architetture & Teoremi di OfficeKGDVS. Angoli bramanteschi e vedute per angolo del XXI secolo (Rome: Campisano, 2023).
‘Agency and Critical Editorial Devices in Recent Little Architecture Magazines’, in The Hybrid Practitioner: Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture, ed. by Caroline Voet, Eireen Schreurs and Helen Thomas (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022), pp. 289–303, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2vt0209.26 (peer reviewed).
‘The Belgian Landscape as Capriccio’, in More Than a Competition: The Open Call in a Changing Building Culture, ed. by Maarten Liefooghe and Maarten Van Den Driessche (Antwerp: VAi, 2021), pp. 59–69.
Editorial and ‘Homes for Luxembourg’, text and round-table conversation with SNCDA et al., on Luxembourg’s contribution to the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, Accattone7 (Mar 2021).
‘White Cube’, in Pierre Leguillon’s The Museum of Mistakes (Zürich: Patrick Frey, 2020), pp. 9–36, with S. Dars. Reprint from ‘Museum of Mistakes’, Accattone4 (Aug 2016).
‘Spit/Models’, Taming the Horror Vacui 2, Modeling Nothingness (2020), pp. 5–6, with S. Dars.
‘Amplitude and Heritage in Go Hasegawa’s Work’, interview, A+ 281 (Nov 2019).
‘Deepfake Conversation Piece’, editorial assemblage in guise of introduction, and ‘Club Donny’, conversation with Ernst van der Hoeven, Accattone6 (Sep 2019).
‘La coiffe, la fontaine, la couronne’, in L’esbroufe, exhibition journal, ed. by Simon Boudvin (Maromme: Le Shed, 2019).
Introduction to Simon Boudvin’s Sources (Mouscron: Musée de Folklore, 2019), pp. 9–13.
‘Magazine Architecture’, OASE100 Karel Martens and The Architecture of the Journal (May 2018), pp. 82–144, with Véronique Patteeuw (peer reviewed).
Editorial and ‘Minor Perspectives’, conversation with Armin Linke, Accattone5 (Mar 2018).
‘Simon Boudvin, APPAREILS 02 (Mouscron)’, A+268 (Oct 2017).
‘Withdrawal’, Pli3 (Sep 2017).
‘Bâtiment-maquette’ (on Aires Mateus in Tournai), A+267 (Aug 2017).
Editorial, ‘Technical Quest’ (on Philippe Samyn) and ‘Sophisticated Cabinet-Making’ (conversation with Constantin Brodzki), in Corporate Arcadia (Jun 2017), with S. Dars.
Editorial, ‘Masks’ (on Frida Escobedo), ‘The Pale Fox’ (on Camille Henrot), ‘Museum of Mistakes’ (on Pierre Leguillon) and ‘Strata’ (conversation with 51N4E), Accattone4 (Aug 2016).
Editorial of Accattone2 (Sep 2015), with S. Dars.
‘Das ist Architektur, yet Alles ist Architektur’ (on Rossi’s and Venturi’s 1966 books), A+255 (Sep 2015).
‘Never Modern’, book review, A+253 (April 2015), p. 92.
‘The Finger and the Moon. Belgian Competitions in Their Representational Context’, in Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge. An International Inquiry, ed. by Jean-Pierre Chupin et al. (Montreal: Potential Architecture Books, 2015), pp. 36–53, with David Vanderburgh (peer reviewed).
Curatorial introduction, extended captions to the main visual content and ‘Conversations’, in V+ Architecture Documents on Five Projects (Brussels: A+, Bozar and Lannoo, 2015), with S. Dars.
‘1:1 Scale Models’, conversation with Robbrecht & Daem, Accattone1 (March 2014), with S. Dars. Reprinted in Robbrecht en Daem – An Architectural Anthology, ed. by Maarten Van Den Driessche (Brussels: Mercatorfonds / New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
Editorial of Accattone1 (March 2014), with S. Dars.
Preface of Stockage et compression, Angélique Buisson et Martial Coudamy (Paris: Tout commence par le geste de mettre à part, 2014), with S. Dars.
‘Who – or What – ‘Wins’ an Architectural Competition? A Model and a Case Study’, FORMakademisk7, no. 1 Architectural competitions II (2014), pp. 1–19, https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.822, with David Vanderburgh (peer reviewed).
‘La marge de manoeuvre, le pêcheur de perles, et l’indiscipline’ (on authorship in Radim Louda’s work), in ReNouveaux Plaisirs d’Architecture #3, ed. by Jean-Didier Bergilez (Brussels: CIVA-ULB, 2013), pp. 134–143, with S. Dars.
‘Dogma: un projet pour la ville’, Flux News61 (Apr 2013).
‘Concours et recherche’, A+ 240 (Feb 2013).
‘Marchés privés : le vent tourne’, A+238 (Oct 2012).
‘POST—CITY. Le Luxembourg à Venise’, Flux News59 (Sep 2012).
‘Extravertie et impertinente’, A+237 (Aug 2012).
‘Nordstad’, in POST—CITY. Considering the Luxembourg Case, ed. by Yi-der Chou, Radim Louda and Philippe Nathan (Luxembourg: LUCA, 2012), pp. 23–25. Invited contribution to the catalogue of the Luxembourg pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
‘Le projet du CIAC. Rencontre avec Rudy Ricciotti’, Fluxnews55 (Apr 2011).
‘XII Biennale d’architecture de Venise’, Fluxnews53 (Sep 2010).
‘Beauty of the Ordinary’, photographic contribution to the catalogue of the Belgian pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, curators Label architecture and Véronique Patteeuw, with Marie-Cécile Guyaux (Brussels: A16, 2006).
MA thesis supervision:
Océane Polizzi, « Ces mondes invisibles : journal d’exploration des « pratiques d’à côté » et de leurs effets sur l’architecture » (ULB, 2025)
Nora De Meester, « Petites revues, contre-pratique de l’architecture : discipline en crise sous le prisme de l’édition indépendante » (ULB, 2023).
Charlotte Minet, « Pierre de Kersanton : Lecture exploratoire d’un territoire anthropisé et d’une matérialité inglorieuse » (ULB, 2022).
Alexandre Chanson, « Quatre-vingt-deux situations familières à travers le territoire hesbignon : Photographie et découverte du territoire – la photographie comme outil de connaissance et de prospection » (ULB, 2020).
Gabriel Vuillemot, « L’espace public : Au tour des tours » (ULB, 2020).
Agathe Lacan, « Pour une photographie critique » (ULB, 2019).
François Lamblin, « De ces corps (étranges) : Regard sur l’architecture de Peter Märkli (ULB, 2019, lauréat du prix interne à la faculté).
David Bavard, « Plan-de-Campagne : zone ou ville ? » (ULB, 2018).
Bertrand Étienne, « Deux projets canoniques en Flandre, 1990-1995 » (ULB, 2017).
Lara Molino, « L’architecture exposée : Étude d’une médiation architecturale – chronique du pavillon belge de la Biennale de Venise » (ULB, 2015).