Soutenir – Ville, architecture et soin

Soutenir – Ville, architecture et soin (“Support – City, architecture and care”) was published by Pavillon de l’Arsenal at the occasion of their homonymous exhibition. Words from the publisher’s website (translated from the French with DeepL):

The history of care, and the history of the places of care that accompany it, is a history of support; the history of places and architectures that hold and support us, rather than detain or contain us – even if the history of these places, those containing rather than holding, is to be told at the same time, for it is in fact often the same. Several of the examples in this book illustrate this ambivalence, such as a bucolic sanatorium built in the Vexin Forest in the 1930s, and transformed a few years later into an internment camp. This book reports, in seven complementary times and whose order does not count so much, seven dimensions of the history of the relations between care, city and architecture.

The book was edited by Cynthia Fleury (philosopher and psychoanalyst) and SCAU (architects’ collective) and designed by deValence, using Dutch 811 (Bitstream), Almeria (Apex Type Foundry), and F Grotesk (RP Digital Foundry). It has 304 pages and measures 250×300 mm.