Faculty Profile

Bernard Cache developed the concept of non-standard architecture in his book Earth Moves, published by MIT Press in 1995. This concept was given the name OBJECTILE by Gilles Deleuze in his book on Leibniz: The fold. In 1996,  Cache founded the company Objectile, together with his partner Patrick Beaucé, in order to conceive and manufacture non-standard architecture components. He is currently dedicated to the reading of classical texts (such as Vitruvius’ De Architectura, and Dürer’s Underweysung der Messung) with the help of CAD CAM software. He teaches nomadically in many universities out of the French territory. Cache holds an Architect EPFL and a Ph.D. in architecture theory.

• ARCH 4509 / 6509 Special Topics in Visual Representation: Parametric Reading of Durer’s Geometry
• ARCH 4101/4102 / 5101 / 5116 / 7912 Digital Fabrication Studio

• Dürer : Toujours l’informe, (to be published by AA)
• Projectiles. Architecture Association Publishing (2011)
• Earth Moves, MIT Press (1995)

• Research grant from the CCA (Centre Canadien de l’Architecture) for the architecture theory project : “Vitruvius, da Vinci, Aristofano Ovide : Contingences – Contangences” (2005)
• Accreditation by Bentley, Inc., to create and supervise a Third Party Developers Team (1999)
• Golden Medal for innovative products at Batimat, the Paris International Trade Fair of the Building Industry (1997)

• BATIMAT (1997 – 1999 – 2001 – 2003 – 2005 – 2007)
• Fast-Wood: A Brouillon Project, Hamburg (2006)
• Non-standard Architecture at the MORI Museum, Tokyo (2005)