LACATON and VASSAL

Description

The architectural team of Lacaton & Vassal consists of Anne Lacaton (1955) and Jean Philippe Vassal (1954). Based in Bordeaux, their practice has been known up until now for its innovatory schemes for single-family housing. Recently, they have begun to occupy an ever more important place on the international architecture scene due to having completed a series of ambitious works, works such as the University of Grenoble and the Centre of Contemporary Creation in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, which has received a lot of press attention.

Their projects are based on a rational and intelligent use of new materials, which enable them to offer optimal and ingenious solutions to their clients’ requirements without renouncing an avant-garde architectural stance. Technique and materials (polycarbonate, industrial greenhouses) are employed to keep the price at a level that enables them to construct the largest spaces possible with a strong, modern image which shuns prototypical solutions.

CONTENTS

Introduction

• Naïve Architecture: Notes on the Work of Lacaton&Vassal. Ilka & Andreas Ruby

Works and Projects

• Latapie House, Floriac. 1993
• André Meunier School, Bordeaux. 1993 (competition)
• Léon Aucoc Square, Bordeaux. 1996
• Day Center for Post-Adolescents. Bègles, 1994
• University of Arts & Human Sciences. Grenoble, 1995 & 2001
• Compiègne School of Architecture. 1997
• House in Saint Pardoux la Rivière. 1997
• House in Bordeaux. 1999
• House in Lège, Cap Ferret. 1998
• House in Corsica. 2001
• Five-Star Hotel in Lugano. 1999
• Housing in Floirac. 1999-2002
• Office Building, Nantes. 2002
• House in Coutras. 2000
• Houses in Mulhouse. 2001-2003
• From the role of the critic to that of the client and a Turkish café. Dietmar Steiner
• Café in Vienna. 2001
• Palais de Tokyo, Center for Contemporary Creation, Paris. 2001

Biography
nexus

• A conversation with Patrice Goulet

156 pages / 30 x 23 cm