After the first volume was published in 2009
under the title Jean-Yves Barrier. Architect and
Urbanist / Architecte et Urbaniste, which documented
25 years of his architectural practice,
this second volume is dedicated to architectural
and artistic projects since the mid-2000s.
It presents not only 25 new architectural projects of
Barrier, but also a completely different facet of his work:
the relationship between architecture and art and the
the astonishing variety of architectural typologies that
Barrier deals with in his current oeuvre.
Barrier never adopts a repetitive or doctrinaire
attitude, but develops new solutions for each project,
which can be found in his ideal »lexicon of constants«.
This is particularly true for the permanent search for
urban coherence for the most varied interventions:
in city centres, in derelict industrial zones
or in diffuse peri-urban spaces. Contemporary
garden cities, condensed and compact assemblies,
collages or the interweaving with what exists
represent possibilities for Barrier to requalify
and redevelop forgotten or abandoned urban situations
with contemporary architecture.
