Hugonnier’s series Art for Modern Architecture (2004-2011), were initially composed of cutouts from Ellsworth Kelly’s 1951 book Line Form Color, collaged onto a variety of newspaper cover pages. Kelly believed that art was to be made for public spaces and buildings, establishing the modernist utilitarian project of art serving modern architecture. Since 2009, Hugonnier also used silk screens in the standard hues of a Kodak color chart (red, blue, green, yellow, magenta and black), while still paying homage to Kelly’s believe that art can serve a structural function. Through her collages, Hugonnier channels her predecessor's ideas, incorporating Kelly's imagery onto another medium, that of a newspaper, the ‘architecture' framing everyday life.

Covering up the photographic image of the paper’s front page, Hugonnier rearranges the daily news narrative, similar to interventions in the practice of John Baldessari. Sometimes the newspaper reveals a historic event, like the 1969 moon landing or September 11 attacks. At other times, like in the current Art for Modern Archicture FA (Homage to Ellsworth Kelly), it seems to be a random sequence of a week’s worth of German news in the Frankfurter Allgemeine's November 2008 issue. Through this intervention, the vivid colors of the collages highlight the power of the apparently mundane newspaper, as we are bound to realize that we can still 'see' what is behind the color blocks.

Works of the Art for Modern Architecture (Homage to Ellsworth Kelly) can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Louvre, Paris, Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Zubladowicz collection, London.