Anne Lacaton Bücher

A published edition of the lecture delivered by the winner of this year's Soane Medal Lecture, to be announced on 28 November 2023

Das Buch ist die erste wissenschaftliche Studie zur thermischen Performance von Wintergärten im Wohnungsbau und zeigt ihr großes Potenzial und ihre Wirksamkeit anhand von ausgewählten Wohnprojekten der französischen Architekten und Pritzker-Preisträger Lacaton Vassal.

"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, 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."--Sternberg Press website (viewed Sept. 29, 2015)