Contrary to Victor Hugo's prophecy, the book did not kill the building. The two have never ceased to coexist, and today's most important architects have established their creative positions on the basis of writings - one need only think of the seminal works of Robert Venturi and Rem Koolhaas.
The interplay between architecture and literature has been the subject of recent publications, such asÉcrire l'architecture, numéro d'Europe (2017) and Emmanuel Rubio and Yannis Tsiomis 's L'architecte à la plume (2019). The Pavillon de l'Arsenal organizes the Le Grand Paris des Écrivainslecture series , while the Société française des architectes has launched several writing competitions under the banner ofArchitecture à la lettre - un lieu, un texte.
From intimate reminiscences to the poetic evocation of a place and the transfer of the building's structural model into the literary field, multiple figures are the source of fruitful exchanges between the built and the written word. As an extension of a lecture on interurbanity, or the relationship between urban forms, in which literary theory is cautiously called upon, this meeting will explore the relationship between writers, architects and buildings, without dogmatism.