Alice Wattelet.

Vassily Kandinsky, russian painter, engraver, poet and playwright, but also a theoretician of art, recognized as one of the pioneers of lyrical abstraction, was one of the major artists of the twentieth century.
We searched for universality and tried to understand what can make it possible to create architecture from the "pictorial". That's why we wondered how to create an architecture based on Vassily Kandinsky's theories.

He approched very close the architecture by writing Point et Ligne sur Plan, a theoretical work on composition and form. He establishes a link between architecture and painting, between picturality and formalization. Can these theories be operational for the architectural project?

Thanks to project experiments, we were able to understand that the direct path painting / architecture was not possible and that it was obligatory to base the design on a previous intellectual reflexion. This "error" of judgment has allowed us to understand that two-dimensional design can not just be reproduced in three dimensions and that a theoretical analysis is needed here. We analyzed and interpreted each theoretical element of his book from an architectural point of view.
Thus, was imposed the "translation" of the nature of the point, of the line and of the original plane in architecture. We therefore, for each part, hierarchical each explanation in close or distant relation with the architecture and we reinterpreted it without distorting the artist's intention.
Subsequently, the understanding of his intellectual journey to compose a pictorial work inspired us the creation of a protocol aiming at creating any type of architecture on any possible site thanks to a method elaborated in a clear way. He himself, in his work, has a working method. Why would not this be adaptable to architecture?