2G LIBROS BOOKS-LACATON & VASSAL

Table of contents:

Introductions:
Extra Space, Extra Large. On the Recent Work of Lacaton and Vassal
Naïve Architecture: Notes on the Work of Lacaton and Vassal by Ilka and Andreas Ruby

Works and Projects:



Extra space, climate, greenhouses

Straw matting hut, Niamey

Low-cost dwelling, prototype

Latapie House, Floirac

House in the Dordogne

House in Coutras

House in Bordeaux

Houses in Saint Georges les Baillargeaux

Apartment building in Poitiers

Houses in Mulhouse

House in Keremma

Nantes School of Architecture



International style?

Five-star hotel, Lugano

Office building, Nantes

Housing in Floirac

Mixed-use building, Dakar



Context, revealing the extant, precision

Léon Aucoc Square, Bordeaux

André Meunier School, Bordeaux

House in Lège, Cap Ferret

House in Corsica

Housing in Saint-Nazaire

The transformation of apartment blocks

Urban studies in La Condamine, Monaco

Commercial and leisure-time building in La Villette, Paris

Shopping mall, Mulhouse

Housing in Hérouville Saint Clair

Tower block in Warsaw

Wine cellar in Embres et Castelmaure

Palais de Tokyo, Center for Contemporary Creation, Paris



Flowers, decoration, filters

The Japanese House of Culture, Paris

Cultural Center of the Seven Twinned Ports, Osaka, Japan

Guadeloupe Central Library, Basse-Terre

Archaeological Museum, Saintes

University of Arts and Human Sciences, Grenoble

Café in Vienna

New uses for ceramics, Limoges

The Architecture Foundation, London

Management Science University, Bordeaux

Biography

nexus:

Two conversations with Patrice Goulet

With this book we present in hardcover book format a new, enlarged and updated edition of 2G issue devoted to the French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, published in 2002.



While at the beginning of their professional career they were 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. This, then, is a singular way of doing things that opens up new horizons for architectural methodology.



This book provides an overview of their work from its beginnings to as yet unseen projects, thus leading to a global vision of their career.