This catalogue accompanies the exhibition *Voies du dessin. From Architectural Sketches to Projects*, presented at the Galerie de l’Académie des beaux-arts, which commemorates the Louis Le Masson Prize for Architectural Drawing – awarded for the first time in 2025 to Frédéric Borel and Pierre Dufour.
A publication by the Académie des beaux-arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris Éditions, with the support of the Louis Le Masson and François Masson Foundation – Académie des beaux-arts.
Established at the Académie des beaux-arts in 2023, the Louis Le Masson and François Masson Foundation awarded the first Louis Le Masson Architectural Drawing Prize in 2025 – Académie des Beaux-Arts, to recognise a living architect presenting drawings from the early stages of an architectural project. This prize aims to encourage mid-career architects to develop their ideas and their work.
Two portfolios are dedicated to the prize-winners: Frédéric Borel and Pierre Dufour.
The other participants are each featured on a double-page spread: Laurent Beaudouin, Yves Bélorgey, Clément Blanchet, Jean-Patrice Calori, Alexandre Chemetoff, Bruno Decaris, Anne-Mie Depuydt, Bruno Gaudin, Nicolas Gilsoul, Georges Heintz, Steven Holl, Anthony Jammes, Stéphane Maupin, MBL Architectes (Sébastien Martinez-Barat, Benjamin Lafore & Florian Jomain), Niall McLaughlin, Gilles Perraudin, Jean-Paul Philippon, Jean-François Quinton, Guillaume Ramillien, RCR Architects (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramon Vilalta), Ivry Serres and Francis Soler.
Foreword by Laurent Petitgirard, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts; essays by Bernard Le Masson, Francis Rambert (curator of the exhibition) and Philippe Trétiack.
Texts by Erik Desmazières, Emmanuel Guibert and Éva Jospin.
Contributions by Marc Barani, Anne Demians, Bernard Desmoulin, Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Dominique Perrault, Alain-Charles Perrot, Jacques Rougerie, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Aymeric Zublena.
27 x 20.5 cm
160 pages – 96 colour illustrations
ISBN: 978-2-84056-941-1
Price: €30
