L'Haha is a paper magazine that publishes an annual survey of a highly atypical place seen in context. For several years now, it has been carrying out an intermittent and itinerant work of inventory, fieldwork and archiving, aimed at identifying and documenting various forms of geographical and architectural apax.
The magazine is in French.
This first issue follows in the footsteps of a shack destroyed some forty years ago, which was once the home of Jean Smilowski, the Robinson of old Lille as he was known to his 'discoverers'... In the darkness of his shack, Jean Smilowski has crafted an entire universe. 30 years after its demolition, what remains of the Robinson du Vieux Lille ranch?
Magazine l’Haha #1 'Le Ranch de Jean Smilowski' (2023)