Lacaton & Vassal (2G Books)

This book is the enlarged and updated new hardcover edition of a special issue of 2G magazine devoted to the French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, published in 2002.
The publication provides an overview of their work from its beginnings to new projects, leading to a global vision of their career. Initially known for their innovatory schemes in the realm of single-family housing, through their daring use of materials and technologies at odds with the traditional discipline of architectural design, their work has evolved in the direction of projects of a wider scope which keep faith with their original aims. Their work is not based upon a preoccupation with form. This is not an a priori aim but the outcome of a design process nourished by issues like typological research, the maximising of built surface for a given budget, energy optimisation and adapting to the programme requested by the client. Technological innovation and materials (polycarbonate, industrial greenhouses) are used to ensure the most suitable price, one that allows the biggest possible spaces to be constructed with a forceful, modern image and no concessions to prototypical solutions.
Projects include: Management Sciences University, Bordeaux, House, Keremma, House, Coutras, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Site for contemporary creation, Social housing, Mulhouse, Café Una, Vienna, House, Bordeaux, House, Dordogne, Office building, Nantes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Site for contemporary creation, Straw matting hut, Niamey, House, Cap ferret, Prototype Dwelling, Five-star hotel, Lugano, Shopping mall, Mulhouse, New uses for ceramics, Limoges, Latapie House, Floirac, Cultural centre of the seven twinned ports, Osaka, Housing, Hérouville Saint Clair, Japanese House of culture, Paris, Guadeloupe Central Library, Basse-Terre, House in Corsica, University of arts & human sciences, Grenoble, Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, The Architecture Foundation, London, Housing, Floirac, André Meunier Primary school, Bordeaux, Archaeological museum, Saintes, Housing, Saint-Nazaire, Petit Maroc, School of architecture, Nantes, Urban studies in Monaco, La Condamine, Apartment building, Poitiers, Commercial and leisure-time building in la Villette, Paris, PLUS - Les grands ensembles de logements - Territoires d'exception - Druot, Lacaton & Vassal, Mixed-use building, Dakar, Wine cellar, Embres et Castelmaure, Tower block, Warsaw, Case study house, Saint Georges.
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