Rooms that form an inhabited puzzle
With profiled geometric edges to take advantage of unexpected
slippages that assemble again and again
and become a society
a parliament
a whole world taking shape
through the mysterious juncture of space and time.

Rooms, integral parts of the whole
Rooms in conversation with the outside
Rooms that decant the present
Rooms that modulate the recitation
Rooms, essential passages
Rooms that are articulated like a language
Rooms, archipelago on the foliage

Rooms with strong edges that conceal
Rooms that move forward and roll into the landscape
Rooms that follow the downward slope along the tall grass
Rooms, threaded pearls in the daytime
Rooms, precise stones that pile up in cairns
Rooms, soil that force the walls
Rooms, gardens that sprang out lush with summer
Rooms in open-air, under the framed and overflowing sky
Rooms, slowly conquering lichens

Rooms of receptive and tender alcoves
Rooms that obscurely become a chamber
Rooms that are nice to corner
Rooms, muffled rooms for salutary retreat
Rooms to sooth
Rooms, tufted steam engine
Rooms of hearths crackling with sparks
Rooms of living light
Rooms lined with books
Rooms for a log nap
Rooms of windows where the mountain press itself like a print

Rooms, that pile up, pick up and collect
Rooms that cope with the imponderable
Rooms for the making of everyday life
Rooms for deceleration
Rooms on a gentle slope
Rooms that stand upright unprimed
Rooms with contours that the penumbra doesn't erase
Rooms of regained joy
Rooms of washed-out nights and new dawns
Rooms fresh from crossings
Rooms of sung air
Rooms of art and poetic cuisine
Rooms out of licit use
Rooms of entresols and interlacing

Rooms of wavy fabric metropolis
Rooms in the height haunted by clouds
Rooms that parade
Rooms of deep forests
Rooms melted into the organic mass
Rooms of unrolling waves swell
Rooms in crazy crowd
Rooms in great shape
Rooms right in front of the monumental
Rooms passionately calling
Rooms bacchanalian
Rooms observatory of the great All

Rooms that compose with emptiness
Rooms score in major space
Rooms that juggle with the suite
Rooms that draw finery
Rooms that deflagrate the habits
Rooms spiraled into a kaleidoscope
Rooms polarized by light
Rooms oriented towards tomorrow

Rooms, graphic and inebriated with folds
Rooms, handwritten on a body scale
Rooms, unhoped-for corner rooms
Rooms of deduced convictions
Rooms, well-ordered
Rooms, spare parts galore
Rooms with multiple stitches
Rooms, contained
Rooms, continuous
Rooms, contiguous
Rooms, processionary
Rooms, concertante
Rooms, rooms that trace
Rooms that trail
Rooms that shoot at point-blank range
Rooms that stretch
Rooms that catch the surreptitious eye
Rooms that dance, pose, whistle
Rooms that stand up, that struggle
Rooms that swell, spread out
Rooms that scatter
Rooms that persist
Rooms that pierce the imaginary
Rooms that point the reason
Rooms that hold to the body

Rooms of one’s own in the intimate that smells and blossoms
Rooms to read
Rooms doors
Rooms seeds
Rooms moon
Rooms air
Rooms as an amethyst cut
Rooms on agitated flow
Rooms thick
Rooms empty
Room in the ironic shape of a W
Rooms “islands where we will never touch earth”
Rooms on the way to infinity
Rooms silence
Rooms of clarity
Rooms, living rooms

This poem was written to accompany the exhibition L’altérité des pièces et la promesse des formes, held at the Galerie d’architecture in 2024. It is published in the eponymous monograph released on that occasion.