Architect and urban planner Benjamin Aubry graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Versailles in 2011 and spent many years studying and working both in Japan and in France. Aubry is keenly interested in the Japanese approach to architecture, towns and cities, and has worked at SANAA, Nakayama Hideyuki and Atelier Bow-Wow architecture firms. For a number of years, he has conducted projects that are part architectural practice, part research into suburban housing.
Benjamin Aubry
Architecture / Landscape architecture / Urbanism
May. Jun. 2019
Project
The Economy of Small
Japanese cities abound with architectural and urban-planning innovations, few of which have been exported beyond the archipelago. Having co-initiated and directed the Kenchiku Architecture project from 2011 to 2014, during his residency Aubry further pursued a line of research he began more than ten years previously. L’économie du petit is an exploratory project inspired by the work of Becher and Atelier Bow-Wow. It documents a number of buildings and urban-planning practices whose architecture and use are of particular interest. Presented as models, photographs and drawings, L’économie du petit is intended to foster and inform thinking on new scales of urban architecture, economy and organisation, for Europe’s future conurbations.
