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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. Currently he teaches architectural design at La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture (ULB Brussels) and representation at the MA Civic Design (PBSA Düsseldorf).
(updated March 2024)
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), upcoming.
– Accattone #7 (May 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.
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), 208 p.
Écoles troubles #1: Penser, éditer, spatialiser la controverse: editor, with Sophie Dars and Galaad Van Daele (Brussels: Accattone, 2023), 64 p.
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
‘Nieuw Zuid’, review of Johannes Norlander’s building Block 16 in Antwerp for the magazine Arkitektur 3, 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, Accattone 7 (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’, Accattone 4 (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, Accattone 6 (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’, OASE 100 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, Accattone 5 (Mar 2018).
‘Simon Boudvin, APPAREILS 02 (Mouscron)’, A+ 268 (Oct 2017).
‘Withdrawal’, Pli 3 (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), Accattone 4 (Aug 2016), with S. Dars.
Editorial of Accattone 2 (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, Accattone 1 (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 Accattone 1 (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 News 61 (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 News 59 (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’, Fluxnews 55 (Apr 2011).
‘XII Biennale d’architecture de Venise’, Fluxnews 53 (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:
Nora De Meester, « Petites revues, contre-pratique de l’architecture : discipline en crise sous le prisme de l’édition indépendante » (ULB, août 2023).
Charlotte Minet, « Pierre de Kersanton : Lecture exploratoire d’un territoire anthropisé et d’une matérialité inglorieuse » (ULB, août 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, août 2020).
Gabriel Vuillemot, « L’espace public : Au tour des tours » (ULB, juin 2020).
Agathe Lacan, « Pour une photographie critique » (ULB, août 2019).
François Lamblin, « De ces corps (étranges) : Regard sur l’architecture de Peter Märkli (ULB, août 2019, lauréat du prix interne à la faculté).
David Bavard, « Plan-de-Campagne : zone ou ville ? » (ULB, juin 2018).
Bertrand Étienne, « Deux projets canoniques en Flandre, 1990-1995 » (ULB, juin 2017).
Lara Molino, « L’architecture exposée : Étude d’une médiation architecturale – chronique du pavillon belge de la Biennale de Venise » (ULB, juin 2015).