France

The win­ners, with full quo­tes from the jury-report: see also dis­cus­sion about the re­sults and the jud­ge­ment (for now only in Dutch, trans­la­tion will fol­low soon)First prize (ex aequo, each 15,000 euro)AMALGAM  - Laura Al­va­rez, laura al­va…

President in­tent on lea­ving vast cul­tu­ral mo­nu­ment to French pride and identity

Entitled ‘Rethinking Theory, Space and Pro­duc­tion: Henri Lef­eb­vre Today’, the con­fe­rence re­flec­ted the huge re­vi­val of in­te­rest in the work of Lef­eb­vre today, which most ar­chi­tects are per­haps un­aware of. Howe­ver, if there’s one tw…

In their prac­tice, the three aut­hors – French ar­chi­tects Frédé­ric Druot, Anne La­ca­ton and Jean-Philippe Vas­sal – work on ma­king ca­re­ful and con­ti­nuous chan­ges to the exis­ting city. To them, total de­mo­li­tion fol­lo­wed by new con­str…

 

Brazil its­elf is present ever­yw­here at the Bi­en­nale with a posse of ar­chi­tects around the Pritz­ker Prize win­ners Nie­meyer and da Rocha. Eu­rope is po­orly re­pre­sen­ted. Other parts of the world are lar­gely ab­sent, apart from South Af­ri…

Peter Nietzke and Eli­sa­beth Blum, both ar­chi­tects and aut­hors of the pu­bli­ca­tion Fa­ve­l­a­Me­tro­po­lis, de­li­vered an op­ti­mis­tic story about Bra­zi­lian slums like Co­paca­bana and Favela-Bairro. It wasn’t that they were po­si­tive abou…

The ‘Zone Pa­la­tul Parlamentului’ was rea­li­sed in all its dull mo­nu­men­ta­lity du­ring the Ce­au­sescu re­gime. The dic­ta­tor got the idea for the big­gest ever grand pro­jet after vi­sit­ing North Korea, where he saw at first han…

'Team 10 grew out of cri­ti­cism wi­t­hin CIAM, as an ir­ri­ta­ting grain in an oyster', said Aldo van Eyck in 1991. Cri­ti­cism was di­rec­ted against what cri­tics saw as the ex­treme func­tio­na­lism of Le Cor­bu­sier, whom Team 10 mem­bers be­lie…

The re­s­ponse grows every edi­tion. With par­ti­ci­pants from 67 dif­fe­rent coun­tries from all con­ti­nents the event dis­plays a uni­que in­sight of trends in de­sign and ideas about edu­ca­tion.The jury (Ian Gil­zean, Hi­to­shi Abe, Zvi Efrat, G…

To house the many ac­tivi­ties that will take place in 2004, the idea was laun­ched to trans­form for­mer fac­to­ries and schools into so cal­led Mai­sons Folie. In 2001 the mu­ni­ci­pal of Lille or­ga­nised a de­sign com­pe­ti­tion for the trans­for…

A minor theme that per­sis­tently runs through mo­dern ar­chi­tec­ture is the quest for (al­most) not­hing, for the pu­rest pos­si­ble ar­chi­tec­ture whose form is de­ter­mi­ned by the very ab­sence of all that is su­per­fluous. The most striking il…

Curated by Paulo Mar­tins Ba­rata (Pro­mon­tó­rio Ar­chi­tects, Lis­bon), with Ger­rit Con­fu­rius (Edi­tor, Ber­lim) and Luis Ta­va­res Pe­reira (Ar­chi­tect, Oporto) with the sup­port of the APM (Por­tu­guese Ma­nage­ment As­so­cia­tion) and Pro­to…

For the ex­hi­bi­tion Mu­ta­ti­ons (de­si­gned by Jean Nou­vel) the Arc en Rêve ar­chi­tec­ture centre in Bor­deaux, France, al­lo­wed a group of ar­chi­tects, pho­to­graph­ers, film-makers and cri­tics to re­cord the cur­rent state of ur­ba­nis…

The Dutch Eu­ro­pan or­ga­ni­sa­tion re­cei­ved 168 ent­ries. This year theme was Sub­ur­ban Chal­lenge - urban in­ten­sity and hou­sing di­ver­sity. There where four lo­ca­ti­ons in The Nether­lands: Ams­ter­dam (Ge­u­ze­veld Zuid), The Hague (Moerw…