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Large scale housing development. An exceptional case
Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal
Andreas Ruby, Ilka Ruby (intro.)
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In the 1960s and 70s many communal housing complexes were built in France and throughout Europe which, while they managed to relieve the pressing postwar need for housing, present serious shortcomings today. Frédéric Durot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal confront this set of problems from a new angle and propose the radical transformation of such housing in order to adapt it to current lifestyles.
'Never demolishing, subtracting or replacing things, but always adding, transforming and utilising them'. This is the premise on which the authors’ proposal is based. Proceeding from an analysis of the elements that go to form the housing, in a survey that moves from inside to outside the building, the authors rehabilitate the pleasure of being an occupant on the basis of a precise and delicate attitude that takes all pre-existing factors into account.
The result is the seven projects presented here, some posited as studies and others, the winning schemes of architecture competitions, which are the prolongation of the objectives and ideas developed in the first.
Frédéric Druot (Bordeaux, 1958) graduated as an architectfrom the École d’Architecture de Bordeaux in 1984. In 1987 he founded the architecture studio Épinard Bleu and in 1991 Frédéric Druot Architecture, in which research is undertaken into the altering of context, scale and cost-effectiveness in new buildings and/or the transformation of preexisting ones. His work was nominated for both the Prix L’Equerre d’Argent du Moniteur (2006) and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award (2005), and he received the Prix Première Oeuvre Moniteur in 1990 for his Centre Georges Pompidou office building. He is the author of, among other books, 40 architectes de moins de 40 ans (Éditions Moniteur, Paris, 1991) and Design et architecture aujourd’hui (Éditions Flammarion, Paris, 1988).
Jean-Philippe Vassal (Casablanca, 1954) graduated as an architect from the École d’Architecture de Bordeaux in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he worked as an architect and urbanist in Nigeria. He taught at the École d’Architecture de Bordeaux from 1992 to 1999 and is currently a professor at the École d’Architecture de Versailles. In 2005 he was a guest professor at the Peter Behrens Fachhochschule in Düsseldorf.
Anne Lacaton (Saint Pardoux la Riviére, 1955) graduated as an architect in 1980 from the École d’Architecture de Bordeaux, being awarded a Master’s in Urbanism there in 1984. She has been a guest professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (2003-2004, 2006).
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264 pp
27 x 19 cm
Paperback
english/español
ISBN: 978-84-252-2163-7
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precio: 43.27 €
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