Lacaton & Vassal Frédéric Druot Christophe Hutin   France   The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the f

Lacaton & Vassal Inside Outside   Qatar   The design can be summed up in a grand gesture, a roof of 150,000 square meters that unifies the set of enclosed spaces, terraces, and gardens, covering the site at 40 meters high with a mesh that guarantees shaded spaces without hindering natural ve

Lacaton & Vassal Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio   United Kingdom   The proposal for the New London Museum at Smithfield Market adapts its program to the available spaces, making the most of the preexisting, its uniqueness and richness, and intervening to improve circulation and to highlight the qualities of the plac

Lacaton & Vassal   Switzerland   The Élysée Museum – of photography – and the MUDAC – of design –, blend into the topography, extending the city’s system of gardens. They are buried for conservation reasons, and a large ramp descends to the main access... [+]

Lacaton & Vassal Frédéric Druot FABG   Canada   Located in the Botanical Garden of Montreal and surrounded by a double glass facade covered with climbing roses, the new building houses a large multifunctional room with an open-plan floor that, together with the hall, makes a total of 760m²... [+]

Lacaton & Vassal Frédéric Druot   Canada   The project provides an immersive experience for visitors with a tour through nine biotopes, following a sequence of spaces that are connected by ramps, filled with vegetation, possible paths, amazing scenarios, and dramatic light entries... [+]

Lacaton & Vassal Aurélien Leroux   French Guiana   The project creates a new complex where the old and new buildings are connected at all levels, making it possible to group most of the program. The structure acts as a support for a vertical garden, which provides a vegetal envelope... [+]

Lacaton & Vassal   Lebanon   The building is located on the perimeter of the garden to ensure its maximum preservation and establish a continuity with the new learning spaces. Its transparency, openness, and clear overlapping of activities favor the legibility of the piece... [+

Lacaton & Vassal Frédéric Druot   France   The forum, the projects floor, and the silence floor are superimposed on three levels connected by a grand open staircase, and are wrapped with a glass facade to maximize natural light and provide 360º views that place visitors in contact with the la

Lacaton & Vassal   Belgium   The main areas of the building generate a continuous space. The connecting element between the different programs is the ramp, which incorporates outdoor areas such as balconies, terraces, a large walkable roof, and plants... [+]

Lacaton & Vassal   China   A sculptural group consisting of five rams, symbol of the foundation of Guangzhou, colonizes the structure defining the interior spaces. Its large scale favors a clear reading from outside and a fragmented perception from the museum’s interior... [+]

Enrique Sobejano   I. A light volume of metal panels supported by thin columns rises in the middle of a dense forest facing the sea, allowing large pine trees to pass through the structure and continue to grow, in an unusual inversion of the image of the cabin suspende

François Chaslin   There are moments when it feels like we are at a turning point. Moments in which the insight and ingenuity of certain architects, their perseverance, the determination of a few builders, and certain changes in the collective imagination open up other

The Hyatt Foundation has selected Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal as the 2021 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the accolade it has been giving every year since 1979, coming with an award of US$100,000 (84,000 euros). Chaired by Ale

530 Dwellings in Bordeaux Refurbishing the collective housing constructions built during the boom of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the main problems in European cities. A problem that, faced with common sense and talent, can lead to projects that are

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The impact of the economic crisis that broke out in 2008 was especially hard on construction, a sector which had contributed to Spain’s prosperity and its citizens’ well-being through improvements in housing and cities; but a sector, too, that became

Llátzer Moix   The partners Jean-Philippe Vassal and Anne Lacaton like to call themselves strategists of the essential. This means that their architectural work aims to address the basic needs of users. And it does so with lightness, delicacy, and friendliness. Als

In the presence of the king and queen of Spain and the feel of being at the threshold of turbulent times, the fourth congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad in collaboration with Arquitectura Viva brought a cast of leading archite

‘Change of Climate’ is the motto of the fourth international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad for 29 and 30 June, in Pamplona. The previous congresses focused on austerity, solidarity, and the necessary as tools with which

Richard Scoffier   The architecture of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal takes the notion of comfort, one of the essential ideas of the Modern Movement, to its last consequences. Outside the scope of formalism, their works present themselves as devices that generat

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architectural modernity was born at the service of life, but ended up becoming only a visual language. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal recover the ethical fiber of the modern project to again place construction at the service of the everyday, a

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2G Books   - 156 Pages 

Frédéric Druot Anne Lacaton Jean Philippe Vassal   La vivienda colectiva. Territorio de excepción