mdlrz.fr is the portfolio website of Maud Laronze:

Maud Laronze is an architect and teacher based in Annecy, in the heart of the Alps. These isolated landscapes, from which she hails, are where the wondrous and the immense intertwine, where attention to fragile balances and the interdependencies of life, to a sense of scarcity and making do with what is readily available, are part of everyday life. This legacy is embodied as a core value in her practice, from the act of designing to that of building, through a heightened connection to materials and an approach of working with precision and precision.

The website was designed and developed by Guillaume Constant and Francis Josserand, using Onlysans by Daria Cohen for headlines and Hagrid by Zetafonts for text.

Atelier EGR is an architecture practice run by Frédéric Einaudi, Maxime Gil, and Anthony Rodrigues, based in Marseille, France. Their philosophy is to conceive architectural projects in a cultural continuity to the respective space and therefore take on as much a responsibility towards the environment as a sensible approach to the population. The founders are also engaged in research, being part of the European editorial structure Cosa Mentale and contributing to the collective Khora which questions the future of suburban areas. This multifaceted approach of architecture is also an exigency towards their own practice, which is rendered in the design of their studio identity.

For the website, Building Paris opted for a sober and clear design, reflecting the transparency of Atelier EGR's functional architecture. The light gray background brings a softness that most black-and-white websites don’t show, and the shade of gray used for passive texts makes the website very legible. The peculiarity of the design lies in the typographic choice of Kessler from Production Type. The inscriptional structure of the font brings immediately to mind the notion of construction, as judiciary texts were originally carved into the walls of the antic city, first steps of the architecture considered as a means of power. This reverential aspect sheds light on the importance of architecture in society, especially when it is used in caps. One of the pages of the website is dedicated to a manifesto that seems to be directly carved into the surface of the screen: black caps on a dark gray background, telling us that “we still want to believe in architecture and in its power of transformation”.

Detail from the Selection page, featuring Kessler with some of its discretionary capital ligatures, here for the OG and OC pairs.

The Collection du Cercle is a printed archive, in the form of a monographic collection of the buildings devised by Atelier EGR, with an invariant presentation principle – featuring Kessler’s numerals on the gray cloth covers.