NIGHTTIME ADVENTURES. INTERVIEW WITH MARC ARMENGAUD

Abstract

Marc Armengaud is a philosopher, urbanist, and founding member and director of AWP Office for Territorial Reconfiguration (Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism). Founded as an architectural practice in 2003, AWP began as an interdisciplinary collective in 1998, running exploration workshops in post-industrial areas in Europe, which later translated into exhibitions, films, soundscapes, performances, lectures, and publications. The collective was also the nest for a post-jazz band (with Marc and Matthias Armengaud on drums and bass) that achieved exciting but minor fame in the early 2000s. AWP is an award-winning interdisciplinary design office, based in Paris, and develops international projects, working on a wide variety of programs such as a vision for Greater Geneva, a giant canopy in Norway, an Insects’ Museum near Paris, the transformation strategy for Paris La Defense CBD, the Lausanne west extension, or an international research program on cities at night (the ‘Troll Protocol’). Projects by AWP were nominated for the European Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2009, 2014, and 2017.