Our publishing house, A.E.R.A., has had a great success over the last ten years troughout France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, whith it's series of french only architectural reviews and, thus we are happy to present our new bilingual edition.

Poïésis is a bilingual review presenting a collective and fundamental view of architecture in the town. It's a review compiled by architects and devellopers, historians and philosophers, and other academics who are invited several times a year to participate in our organised discussions. During these conferences, we tackle major problems which arise for contemporary thought in social, political, philosophical, scientific and aesthetic fields. Each thematic issue of Poïésis brings together interdisciplinary exchanges on architecture and the city, and it is today diffused by correspondence in a network of bookshops, especially in Europe.

Poïesis means “to make” in ancient Greek. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic sense, poïetic work reconciles thought with matter and time, and man with the world. It is a communion of the bodies, it is co-naissance and “reconnaissance“ through encounters, struggles and accords in the matter and time of the multiplicity of men, from which result those collective and impersonal creations of peoples, forms endowed with rhythm, meaning and poetry that have always been our architecture and our cities. True creation can only exist in the physical world, whereas ideas lose their way when they leave the ground, and it is the refusal of otherness that leads straight to totalitarian suicide. This is true of ideas that are imposed on all and claim to govern the world, those abstract urban plans that turn our homes into cells and our cities prisons. It is through collective, material and temporal work that finally we make ourselves a world, a work in the world that is the work of the world. And it is through this achievement that people recognize one another as being part of the same human community and that they give a unity to their irreducible multiplicity. It is then by building that a human community builds itself, sealing in stone, concrete and iron this living, at once unique and multiple organization that we call a city.