Lacaton & Vassal: Open Conditions for Permanent Change. Interview with Anne Lacaton
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Interview by Jose Mayoral Moratilla
Realized in Lacaton & Vassal Architects Office, Paris (December 21st, 2018).
Anne Lacaton, founding partner of Lacaton & Vassal, is a professor at ETH Zurich and has been a visiting professor at ETSAM, EPFL, TU Delft and Harvard University, among other institutions. The work of Lacaton & Vassal has been widely published, including monographs in 2G and El Croquis, and has been recognized with the granting of the EU Mies Award in 2019.
From their first house, Maison Latapie, to the transformation of 530 dwellings in Bordeaux, Lacaton and Vassal’s approach aims to create open conditions to facilitate permanent change. Expanding the space, doubling the height, and increasing the structural capacity are several of the spatial strategies they employ to embrace evolution and change.
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