The Archi media association was set up in Paris, in 1992. Its members are Fiona Meadows, architect, teacher and director, since 1999, of the Salon d'actualité de l'Institut français d'architecture, and Frédéric Nantois, architect and architectural consultant for the Cognacq-Jay Foundation. Together they combine their teaching, research and informational activities, considering the relationship between architecture and the new media. The Divorce House is the title of a mass-produced work, developing on the basis of a varied range of projects: a video triptych, publications, interactive installations, constructions... It is intended to be the expression of a situation peculiar to present-day society, organized around a constant quest for greater homogeneity and uniformity, and demands for greater independence and individualism--the house itself being, from the outset, a place built around these ambivalent logical systems. At the same time, a community is organized around shared values, and we find the development of diverging personalities. Divorce and union form inseparable and interdependent notions.
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• La maison du divorce/ la bohème – en cours de réalisation

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Archi media
Meadows (Fiona) (1967), Nantois (Frédéric) (1965)