Atelier Général
Alexis Naylor and Stéphanie Plourde founded Montreal-based architecture studio Atelier Général in 2010. The team work across different scales and typologies ‘transforming constraints into creative solutions’. Atelier Général has completed 10 projects to date. One of the projects, La Roche house, forms a bridge in the landscape with a large terrace embedded into the terrain of rocks and maples. ateliergeneral.ca
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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