Freedom of use /
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants' freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The Paris-based architects opened their 2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto, study and create an inventory of the existing situat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Berlin :
Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; Sternberg Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants' freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The Paris-based architects opened their 2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto, study and create an inventory of the existing situation, densify without compressing individual space, promote user mobility, access and choice and most importantly, never demolish. Freedom of Use reflects on these core values to present a fluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassal's oeuvre, articulated through processes of accumulation, addition and extension. The architects describe built and unbuilt work, from a house in Niger made of little more than branches to the expansive Nantes School of Architecture to a public square in Bordeaux where, after months of study, their design solution was, do nothing. |
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| Physical Description: | 93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783956791734 3956791738 |