In addition to more familiar figures such as artists Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Yves Klein and Annette Messager,
architects Le Corbusier, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano, and designer Philippe Starck, Premises introduces a
younger generation of French artists and
architects, including Absalon, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Patrick Berger, Frederic Boerl, Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, who had not
yet become widely known outside France at the time of publication.