PATRICK KNOCH

"Our objects go beyond what we expect from an everyday object."

Architect in Zurich and Berlin, Patrick Knoch left everything behind to settle in France and founded EXTRANORM. The architecture, having become too stable, gives way to a light, playful and elegant design. In his work, there are two complementary approaches: on the one hand, a...

"Our objects go beyond what we expect from an everyday object."

Architect in Zurich and Berlin, Patrick Knoch left everything behind to settle in France and founded EXTRANORM. The architecture, having become too stable, gives way to a light, playful and elegant design. In his work, there are two complementary approaches: on the one hand, a rationalist spirit, always concerned with typologies and norms, and on the other hand, an indocile spirit freeing itself from conventions. Patrick Knoch never stops questioning the object and enriching it: "We have to find the right question. As if the well asked question was already hiding its solution. I wish that an idea, a concept or a principle transforms the object in a simple form, so that it becomes complex, rich and surprising. It is the gentle and lasting magic..."