DIDIER FIÚZA FAUSTINO (1968, Paris, França) is an architect and artist working on the relationship between body and space. He started his own practice at the crossroad of art and architecture just after graduating in architecture in 1995.
He has been developing since then a multi-faceted approach, ranging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings.
After teaching six years at the AA School in London (Diploma Unit 2) and being two years editor in chief of the French architecture and design magazine CREE in 2015 and 2016, Didier Faustino is currently fully dedicating his time on architecture projects (Mexico, Costa Rica, Belgium, Portugal and France) and art installation and exhibitions (Vienna, Geneva, Lisbon, Los Angeles).
Lives and works between Paris and Lisbon.
EDUCATION
1995 Architect D.P.L.G, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Villemin, Paris, France
PRIZES & GRANTS
2018
Pierre Cardin Prize for Architecture, Academie de Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
2010
Prix Dejean, French Academy of Architecture, Paris, France
2002
Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture, Paris, France
2001
Tabaqueira Prize, Lisbon, Portugal
2000
L'Envers des Villes, Paris, França
OTHER PROJECTS
2012
Teacher Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London, United Kingdom
2011
Teacher Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London, United Kingdom
Teacher Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA), Paris, France
2010
Workshop, "Manifestez-vous !", Centre Georges Pompidou et MJC Torcy, France
Workshop, "Architectural eyejacking, performance and sabotage", IED Design, Rome, Italy
Teacher Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
2009
Workshop Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de Monaco, Monaco
Workshop, Architectural School, Alicante, Spain
Workshop New wave Atlanta, Georgia State University, Georgia, USA
General curator for Evento09, 1rst edition of the artistic and urban rendez-vous of Bordeaux, France
2007
Workshop San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2006
Animalités / Illégalités workshop, Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
2005
Guest teacher, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Station Tour workshop, Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
2003
Art, Architecture etc... workshop, Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France
2002
Usual Landscape workshop, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Ube, Japan
2001
II Seminario Internacional de Arquitectura, Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2000
Co-founder of "Númerofestival", Lisbon, Portugal
1998
Co-founder of "Númeromagazine", Lisbon, Portugal
1997
Co-founder of workshop "Le Fauteuil Vert", Paris, France
1996
Founder of Laboratory of Architecture, Performances and Sabotages (L.A.P.S.), Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Unbuilt Memories, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa, Portugal
2016
MY CRAFTS, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Sabotaje, Parque Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico
2015
Undomesticated Places, AA - Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
AA Gallery, School of architecture, London, United Kingdom
Des Corps & Des Astres, LE MAGASIN, Centre National d'Art contemporain, Grenoble, France
2014
This is not a love song (in situ architectural and solo exhibition), Nathalie Seroussi, Villa André Bloc, Meudon, France
2013
We can't go home again, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Memories of Tomorrow, Le Transpalette Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bourges, France
2012
Dead Zone, HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland
Habeas Corpus, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2011
Les meilleur des mondes, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, France
The Wild Things, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Don't Trust Architects, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Interzone, Galeries Lafayette Maison, Paris, France
2010
Balance of Emptiness, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Agnosian Fields, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan
2009
(G)host in the (S)hell 2, Laxart, Los Angeles, USA
2008
(G)host in the (S)hell, Storefront, New York, USA
2007
Symposium, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
2006
Nem Tudo é Verdade, La Verrière, Brussels, Belgium
2005
Corpus Delicti, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Salaryman's Dream, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Didier Fiúza Faustino / Bureau des Mésarchitectures, ICP, Institute for Cultural Policy, Hamburg, Germany
2004
1/1, 1/10, 1/100., FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
2003
Didier Fiúza Faustino, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal
Interstice, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
2002
Project Room, Artists Space, New York, USA
2001
WC/Container, Artes em Partes, Oporto, Portugal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Alternatives for living, Krefeld Museum, Germany
1st edition of the Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage d’Ile de France, FR
2018
Architecture effects, Gugenheim Bilbao, Spain
PARI, 4e Biennale du Réseau des maisons de l'architecture, Paris, France
Tubologie, nos vies dans les tubes, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, France
2017
THEM OR US!, Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett, Oporto, Portugal
The end of the World, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
La boite de nuit, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Black Incarnation, Biennale Passage(s) Design(s) Noir(s) organisé par l'ISCID, Fondation d'entreprise Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France
Utopia / Dystopia II, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
2016
Sur des territoires fluides, Centre d'art contemporain - La Maréchalerie, Versaille, France
RAM radioartemobile, specific project in Jannis Kounellis, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Portugal, Portugueses, Museu Afro-Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
La Maison Magique, Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, France
Constellation.s, Arc en rêve - Centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France
La ville au lion, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
El peso de un gesto : La mirada de Julião Sarmento, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain
2015
Afinidade Electivas, Fundação EDP, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
Gallery Weekend Mexico 2015, Parque Galeria, Mexico DF, Mexico
12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Architecture Biennial Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Undomesticated Places, Architectural Association Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Transformers, Museo Nazionale delle art del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome, Italy
Under the Skin, Textiel Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Projet MIRAGES, La Platine, Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne, France
J'aime les panoramas, Rath Museum, Geneva, Switzerland ; MuCEM, Marseille, France
Summertime Love 2, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
2014
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo - centre d'art contemporain, Paris, France
Buidering : Misbehaving the City, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnatti, USA
2013
H Box / Le Fresnoy Studio Hermés, Belvédère - FRAC Nord-Pas de Calis, Dunkerque, France
I'll be your mirror, Lisbon week, Lisbon, Portugal
Sob o Signo de Amadeo - Um Século de Arte, CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
The Small Where, Opus Projects, New York, USA
Il était une foi, MAD (Mad about Art and Design), Strasbourg, France
C'est pas mon genre !, Biennale Internationale du design, Saint-Etienne, France
Dialogues, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, California, USA
2012
Commissariat pour un arbre #2, 7.5 Club, Paris, France
Circuito de Arte Pública, Paredes, Portugal
C'est pas mon genre !, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
9 + 1 Ways of Being Political, MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Projections Urbaines, L'Institut, Yokohama, Japan
Politique Fiction, Cite du Design, Saint-Etienne, France
Entre Espaços, Colecção do CAM 1968-2011, CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Les Salons dans le Parc, Domaine de Chamarande, France
Ultra Boy, Castello Sforzesco di Milano, Milan, Italy
X_sound, Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea
L'émoi du design - Diseno de Francia, Institut français, Madrid, Spain
2011
De Narcisse à Écho, Espace le Carré, Lille, France
Re-cycle : Strategie per l'architettura, la citta e il pianeta, Maxxi, Rome, Italy
Performance & Arquitectura, during International encounters "El Arte es Acción", Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain
Prix Meurice pour l'art contemporain, Meurice hotel, Paris, France
Paris design week, group show, à la cité de la mode et du design, Paris, France
My Paris / Collection Antoine de Galbert, The French Scene, ME collectors room, Berlin, Germany
See yourself sensing: redefining human perception, Work gallery, London, United Kingdom
Container Architektur, museum NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Dermany
Invasion, Maison Leroux / Musée de la Chicorée, Orchies, France
In the Crystal Palace, CA'ASI, Venice, Italy
Merz World: Yona Friedman & Tomas Saraceno, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris, France
The Sounds inside my Mind, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
Summertime Love, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Body sound: update III, Liedts-Messen Foundation, Gent, Belgium
Frozen Moments. Architecture Speaks Back, Research & Leisure, Laura Palmer Foundation & The Other, Space Foundation, Tbilissi, Georgia, USA
MIRAGES/céramiques, Fondation 93, Cité des sciences et de l' industrie, Paris, France
Global Design, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Spatial City: An architecture of Idealism, Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), Milwaukee - Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago -Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAD), Detroit, USA
Destroy design, Collection du Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, MUDAC, Switzerland - Arhus Kunstbygning, Denmark - Design Museum Gent, Belgium
H-Box, New Museum, New York , USA - Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico - Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Never Dance Alone, Collection du Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
Les Racines du Mal, 104, Paris, France
Shenzen and Hong-Kong Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture: City Mobilisation, Shenzen, Switzerland
Mécaniques Amoureuses, Parcours Privé de la Fiac, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
Performa09, New York, USA
La confusion des sens, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Rahm vs Faustino, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château Gontier, France
2008
New Wave Atlanta, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
Paris Photo, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
3trd Yokohama Biennial, Yokohama, Japan
11th Architecture Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
Manifesta 7, Roverento, Italy
ARCHILAB, Collection FRAC Centre, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Des Coiffes, Décoiffent, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
2007
Ficção Vs. Realidade, CAM, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Du machinique et du vivant, la Réserve / Pacy sur Eure, France
Not only possible, but also necessary, optimism, in the age of global war, Istanbul, Turkey
Instant City, Abbaye de Fontevraud, Paris, France
Artiste Français de A à Z, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Airs de Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou (MNAM), Paris, France
Transient City, Urban Landmarks, Ville de Luxembourg, Luzembourg
Ready-Made, Project Space Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2006
São Paulo Contemporary Art Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea
Future City, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
1:1, Pavilhão Centro de Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal
Scénographies d'Architectes, Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
L'Eau, Source d'Architecture, Fondation EDF, Espace Electra, Paris, France
2005
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Switzerland
Big Bang!, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou (MNAM), Paris, France
Yokohama International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Art/36/Basel, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Avenirs de Villes, Nancy 2005, Site Alstom, Nancy, France
New Trends of Architecture, Anyang Cultural Center, Anyang City, South Korea; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan; Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong, Japan
Toxic, Terminal 02, Hangar K7, Oeiras, Portugal
Em Fractura, Terminal 01, Hangar K7, Oeiras, Portugal
+/- Dense, Galerie du Petit Château, CAUE 92, Sceaux, France
Anyang Public Art Project 2005, Anyang City, South Korea
2004
Ailleurs, ici, ARC au Couvent des Cordeliers, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Beijing Biennial of Architecture, Beijing, China
Venice Biennial of Architecture, Venice, Italy
Montreal Biennial of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Acquisitions récentes, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou (MNAM), Paris, France
Archilab, Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Ambulantes, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Arredare la casa, abitare il Museo, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genes, Italy
Cabanes, Château de Bagatelle, Neuilly, France
E-W/N-S, Arc en Rêve, Bordeaux, France
Fight the Power, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
La vie sans art nuit gravement à votre santé et à celle de votre entourage, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
New Trends of Architecture, Maison Folie, Lille, France
PT#30<40, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
TROU, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France
Trafic d'influences: Art & Design, Tri Postal, Lille, France
2003
Venice Biennial of Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy
The Sphere of Bodies, Ningyo-cho Exhibit Space Visions, Tokyo, Japan
Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture, Graz, Austria
Great Expectations, XIV Fuoriuso, Pescara, Italy
Influx, Recent Portuguese Architecture", Espaço Cultural Silo, Oporto, Portugal
Les Nouveaux Albums des jeunes architectes 2001/2002, France
Valence Biennial, Valencia, Spain
2002
Venice Biennial of Architecture, Venice, Italy
Color del Mediterraneo, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy
B-Side 2002, New York, USA
Chanel Store, Soho, New York, USA
Collections, MNAM, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2001
Archilab 2001, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
Traversées, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Research Architecture, Storefront, New York, USA
Maia Biennial, Maia, Portugal
Cascais Biennial, Cascais, Portugal
Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania
Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Archi-Couture, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
Nuit & Jour II, Rouen Opera, Rouen, France
Que saurions-nous construire d'autre?, Musée Ziem, Martigues, France
2000
Venice Biennial of Architecture, Less aesthetics, more ethics, Venice, Italy
Archilab 2000, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
VIA (Cidade. Subúrbio. Capital), FMRC, Almada, Portugal
Corps / Accords, Traffic, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Contaminantes / Comunicantes, SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal
Plano XXI, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Des moutons aux cimes des Alpes, Galerie Public, Paris, France
1999
E-spaces, Purple Institute, Paris, France
(A)casos (&) Materiais, CAPC, Coimbra, Portugal
Plux shshsh feira, Les Voûtes, Paris, France
1998
Interferência 01, Praça do Príncipe Real, Lisbon, Portugal
La grande étagère/IFYA, Montreal, Canada
1997
Beau comme un camion, Europride, Paris, France
La grande étagère/IFYA, Milan, Italy
A3 (l'archi s'expose), Institut Français, France
Pré-Post, Espace APO, Paris, France
1996
A3 (l'archi s'expose), Fondation EDF, Espace Electra, Paris, France
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, Portugal
Colecção António Cachola, Portugal
FNAC, Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
MNAM, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
MACS, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (MACS), Oporto, Portugal
MoMa, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA