(F) The English architect Duncan Lewis, a keen student of Japanese culture, has been operating in France for more than 10 years. By turns an associate of Jacques Hondelatte, then associated with Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, in Bordeaux, and François Roche and Edouard François in Paris, he is currently working in Angers in association with a young architect Hervé Potin, a former student at the French Academy in Rome. Together they are working on a college in Norway and have just been declared winners of the competition for the "Parc du végétal" in the Anjou region. Starting from the relationship between textile art, the geometrization of the natural and landscape representation, Tartan Land’s combines plants and housing based on a pattern whose matricial geometric structure permits infinite variations. Tartan is more than a pattern: it incorporates man in the landscape by way of his territory, in accordance with a twofold connection: pattern/identity, man/landscape, which veers towards the project of an inhabitable architecture. The project thus conjures up an inhabitable topiary, whose sculpture is produced by a scattering of planted areas imprinted, in relief, with a tartan pattern. Lewis, Potin & Lewis were present at the 7th Architectural Biennale in Venice, in 2000.

Lewis, Potin & Lewis
Lewis (Duncan Owen) (1959), Potin (Hervé) (1972)
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• Tartan Land's projet avec Block : Riffaut (Pascal), Brillet (Denis), Fillon (Benoît), 2001