Lacaton & Vassal   France   Before the completion of the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1974, the Contemporary Arts Museum was in the Palais de Tokyo, a large building raised on the banks of the river Seine on occasion of the 1937 World Fair. Once the collections had been moved, di

Lacaton & Vassal   France   The project for the construction of 14 housing units is part of a larger scheme involving 61 residential buildings carried out by five architectural teams, extending the city of Mulhouse. The objective was to produce quality dwellings that, at the sa

Lacaton & Vassal   France   The dwelling is located on a plot that stretches behind the dunes, sheltered by them. This site makes direct eye contact with the water impossible, but the presence of the ocean is everywhere: in the sounds, the wind and the clouds. The exact locatio

Lacaton & Vassal   France   In a developing urban context, the university campus is a dense islet delimited along the perimeter by the regulations regarding facade alignments. Four buildings are raised around a square, with passageways and interior courtyards at different level

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

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