ABOUT ME

29 yr old French architect and former assistant professor at the Architecture School of Nantes before giving up to save the world and deciding to travel instead.

PHILOSOPHY

"Pour qu'une chose soit intéressante, il suffit de la regarder longtemps" (To make something interesting, you have only to look at it long enough)
Gustave Flaubert

"Just do it"
N.

Interests

Dérive is my favorite sport : spontaneous road trip, pop-up dinner party as well as unplanned journey through a urban landscape excite me

• architecture
• partying
• traveling
• sports
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Non-exhaustive lists make my day:

Film Directors
Gus van Sant / Sofia & Francis Ford Coppola / Stanley Kubrick / Joel & Ethan Coen / Wes Anderson / Quentin Tarantino /James Gray / Martin Scorcese / Alfred Hitchcock / Michel Gondry / Jean Luc Godard / Jacques Tati / Pedro Almodovar / Wong Kar-wai /Jia Zhang Ke

Series
The Wire / Homeland / Game of Thrones / Madmen / Skins / BBC Life Collection

Music : essentially cosmicbalearockabilly dance music

Chromatics / Tame Impala / Mac Demarco / AlunaGeorge / Grizzly Bear / Nicolas Jaar / Jamie XX / Four Tet / The Knife / LCD Soundsystem / Jagwar Ma / The Rapture / Beach House / The Whitest boy alive / James Blake / Real Estate / The Miracles Club / Allah-las / New Order / Gang Gang Dance / Toro Y Moi / Midnight Magic / YACHT / Lo-fi-fnk / Taken by trees / Cut Copy / Todd Terje / Disclosure / Buraka Som Sistema / !!! / Azealia Banks / Ricardo Villalobos / Joy Division / Serge Gainsbourg / Francoise Hardy and sooo many more

Labels
DFA records / Modular / Warp / Secretly Canadian / 4AD / Perlon / Kompakt / Future Classic / Kitsune / Beats in Space records /Tigersushi / R&S Records / Cómeme / Que Bajo / Awesome Tapes from Africa / Akwaaba Music / Permanent Vacation / Kill the dj / Italians do it better / Maman Records /

Artists / Architects
Carsten Holler / Olafur Eliasson / Anish Kapoor / the Dusseldorf school of photography ( Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff) / Bruce Naumann / Felice Varini / Edward Hopper / Marcel Duchamp / digital and generative art /Le Corbusier / Peter Eisenman / Herzog & de Meuron / Peter Zumthor / Adolf Loos / Aldo van Eyck / Sanaa / Thomas Heatherwick

Books
OuLiPo (Pérec, Calvino, Queneau) / Henri Bergson / Stephen Jay Gould / Karl Popper / Michel de Certeau / Montaigne / Jorge Luis Borges / Michel Foucault / Jean Baudrillard / Gilles Deleuze / D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson / Michel Serres / Ilya Prigogine / Denis Guedj / Jakob von Uexküll

Comics
L'association / Nobrow / Marjane Satrapi / Brecht Evens / Bastien Vivès / Daniel Clowes / Chris Ware / LUZ / Guy Delisle / Manu Larcenet

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France