Alexis Herbosch - Elemental Liv

“Balance isn’t something you find, it is something you create.”

In his first monograph, defining 20 years of design practice and projects, Alexis Herbosch invites the reader to discover and engage step by step into his mental landscape, design language and love for materials. “Elemental Liv” guides the reader through the architect’s practice and visualises an extensive oeuvre, in which his clients appreciate the permanent search for noble simplicity. By making careful and deliberate choices while following the path he has taken, his visions on life and architecture are merged with the home stories of his clients.

“My motivation is to design high-quality outdoor and indoor spaces that allow us to experience small and big moments. Because our immediate surroundings influence our feelings much more than we think. Design with a future is my goal, and the character of a place remains my source of inspiration. We create living environments in which people will live and experience. This fills me with pride, but above all gratitude, because it is a great honour for me to contribute from my vision to the lives of a growing number of clients and their families. I am curious to see what will come my way in the near and far future. My lasting aspiration is to be able to inspire clients, in an open dialogue, with my creativity. That is my motivation: to inspire confidence in a design that is yet to be realised and that will give them the intended result, a comfortable building with which they feel connected. Always different, but always with the same intensity, experience and inspiration. This also applies to my life. I reduce as much as possible to the essence. Everything superfluous is stripped away, like a building that fits into the landscape, where it shares the peace of the mist and dew with its inhabitants.” – Alexis Herbosch