Anne-Françoise Jumeau (1962), Emmanuelle Marin (1967), David Trottin (1965)

Created in 1995, Périphériques is a handful of two architectural agencies. Its goal is to respond to the crisis occurring in the area of commissions by the creation of a pressure group whose brief is to infiltrate and occupy all the different territories in the world of construction. Well aware of the abandonment of the market for individual homes by architects, Périphériques organized, with Louis Paillard, an travelling European exhibition in 1998 called 36 Models for a House, and published a catalogue of these 36 detached homes costing less than 76,000 euros. The gardens of the Piroterie (delivered 2004) gave concrete form to this project by occupying a territory of 18 hectares/45 acres on the basis of mainly detached houses, at Rezé near Nantes. In 2002, they won the competition for a new educational building at Jussieu (delivery 2006), Périphériques also designed the interior refurbishment of the New Casino (2001) in Paris, the new drawings department at the Pompidou Centre (2002), the group also participated in the French pavilion at the Venice architectural Biennal in 2002. Works in progress in 2004 include the headquarters and musical complex of the association “Banlieues Bleues” at Pantin, and the School of Fine Arts in Valenciennes. Périphériques also lays claim to the status of “producer” by broadening its area of activity to that of publisher, author and mediator by the organization of critical events ranging from an exhibition titled Concours perdus, 14 projets d’architecture et de paysages/Lost Competitions: 14 architectural and landscape projects in 1996 to the launch of an architectural magazine IN-EX in 1999, soon followed by Customize, Your House Now and New’s.