Anne Lacaton

Anne Lacaton (born 2 August 1955)[1] is a French architect and educator.

She was born in Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière on 2 August 1955. In 1989, she formed Lacaton & Vassal with Jean-Philippe Vassal.[2]

Education

Lacaton graduated in architecture from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux and received a masters in urban planning from the University of Bordeaux in 1984.

Academic career

Anne Lacaton was appointed as Associate Professor of Architecture & Design at the ETH Zurich (2017). As an academic teacher with socio-political honesty and an ideological approach to architecture, her designs and constructions make a clear statement in support of the human rather than the iconic. She shows meaningful consideration for the concerns of the people involved, such as residents in areas undergoing redevelopment. Her design aim to promote user participation, both in residential buildings as well as schools or museums.[3]

She was Visiting Professor at the University of Madrid, Master Housing (2007–13); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne) (2004, 2006 & 2010-11); University of Florida, Ivan Smith Studio (2012); University of NY-Buffalo, Clarkson Chair (2013); Pavillon Neu ize OBC-Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013–14); Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD); Kenzo Tange (2011) & Design Critic (2015).[3]

She was a keynote speaker at the 6th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction in Cairo, Egypt (2019) where she presented how “Never demolish, always transform” is at the heart of the design process of Lacaton & Vassal including the renovation program of more than 500 dwellings in the Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux, France originally constructed in the early 1960s.

Anne Lacaton was a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for region Europe (2017); and will be a member of the Global LafargeHolcim Awards jury in 2021.

Projects with Philippe Vassal

A great deal of Lacaton's work has been in partnership with Phillip Vassal, the duo have worked on a number of projects together.

The firm designed the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art gallery in Paris, completed in 2001. The project, a bare bones reclamation of a semi-derelict art deco building near the Seine, was short-listed for the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2003 and has been immensely influential as perhaps the most extreme of found-space galleries.[4]

Openly proclaiming to be a reflection and search for architectural economy, the work undertaken by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal focuses on reduced-cost constructions in order to rejuvenate the dialogue with contracting authorities. Research on hybridizations, between a contemporary building concept and the use of the most diversified techniques, produces projects that make the most of construction programs by upsetting building contractors' standard usages.[3]

In 2005, Lacaton & Vassal and architect Frédéric Druot were selected to reshape the Tour Bois le Prêtre, a 17-story housing tower on the city’s northern edge designed by architect Raymond Lopez in 1957. The team cut away most of the thick façade’s panels, installing balconies and large sliding windows in their place. Besides opening the apartments to more natural light, the units are being significantly enlarged and opened, and the firm installed new plumbing, bathrooms, ventilation, and electric systems. The project won the Design of the Year by the UK’s Design Museum (2013).

The practice has received the Erich Schelling Award (2006), International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2009), Daylight and building components of the Velum Foundation, Copenhagen (2011), Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal (2016), and the Mies van der Rohe Award (2019).

Plus

Lacaton & Vassal have worked with Frederic Druot on sustainable housing projects, reinventing old 1960's era social housing in a project called Plus.[4] Plus is an initiative to upgrade old social housing into better living spaces. They've published literature on the project.[4]

Awards

Lacaton & Vassal received the Grand prix national de l'architecture in 2008, a Royal Institute of British Architects International Fellowship in 2009.[5] a Rolf Schock Prize in the Visual Arts in 2014[6] and the Heinrich Tessenow Medal in 2016.[7] In 2018 their studio received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.[8]

  • Simon Architecture Prize/ Fondation Mies Van der Rohe – The Living Places (With Frederic Druot) – 2016[9]
  • Life Time Achievement – Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa – 2016[9]
  • Académie de l’Architecture France – Gold Medal – 2016[9]
  • Heinrich Tessenow – Gold Medal, Germany – 2016[9]
  • Rolf Schock Prize visual arts category – 2014[9]
  • Design of the year, architecture category (with Frederic Druot) – 2013[9]
  • Paris Daylight & Building Components Award – 2011[9]
  • Velux Foundation Copenhagen Grand Prix National d’Architecture – 2008[9]
  • France International Fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects – 2009[9]
  • Erich Schelling Award -2006[9]
  • Fondation Erich Schelling, Karlsruhe Award “Sustainability and Residential Innovation”, City of Madrid - 2006[9]
  • Grand Prix National d’Architecture Jeune Talent, France – 1999[9]
  • Lauréats des Albums de la Jeune Architecture, France – 1991[9]
  • Paris, France Equerre d’Argent Award (With Frederic Druot) – 2011[9]

References
  1. Albert, Marie-Douce (2 February 2012). "Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal et les clés de la maison Latapie" [Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal and the keys to the Latapie House]. www.LeMoniteur.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  2. "Anne Lacaton – Clarkson Chair in Architecture". University at Buffalo. March 19, 2013. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  3. info@lafargeholcim-foundation.org, LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. "Anne Lacaton | LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction". LafargeHolcim Foundation website. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  4. Krasny, Elke (November 2008). "Plus: Mehr als das Existenzminimum. Anne Lacaton und Frédéric Druot im Gespräch / Plus: More than the bare minimum Anne Lacaton und Frédéric Druot in conversation". Architektur Aktuell (344): 4–5.
  5. "Lacaton & Vassal Architectes". Nobel Center. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  6. "Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal – the Visual Arts" (PDF). Rolf Schock Prizes 2014.
  7. "Anne Lacaton". Lafarge Holcim Foundation.
  8. "Winners by years".
  9. "Lacaton and Vassal CV" (PDF). www.lacatonvassal.com. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
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