The winners of the 2021 Pritzker Prize present their architectural ethos through nine examples The French firm Lacaton & Vassal, established in Paris in 1987 by Anne Lacaton (born 1955) and Jean-Philippe Vassal (born 1954), has designed private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions and public spaces that reflects its advocacy of social justice and sustainability.
Making the others and the inhabited Space tangible through the frames of Karine Dana\'s films, showing the life and inhabitants in nine built works by the architects..
Habiter - life, uses, making the Space one\'s own.
Take the values of the place as it is and integrate them into the project, never in opposition to it.
Treat the place as an existing prerequisite.
Apply Free Space to existing structures and situations.
Transformation - never demolish, always add, transform, extend.
This pre-determined aim is a fundamental principle for Lacaton and Vassal: it is no longer up for debate, and it forms the basis of all their projects.
In this book, the French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, winners of the 2021 Pritzker Prize, present their work through three concepts: Free Space - the ideal Space would invariably be generous of size, efficiency and comfort.
Accordingly, this volume presents nine built works by the architects, showing the life and inhabitants of each building so as to convey its animation and adaptation as a tenanted structure.
Free Space signifies their concern to achieve a generosity of scale
Transformation expresses their adage never demolish, always add, transform, extend; and Habiter describes their insistence on making Space one\'s own.
Here, the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Prize present their oeuvre of four decades through three guiding concepts.
The winners of the 2021 Pritzker Prize present their architectural ethos through nine examples The French firm Lacaton & Vassal, established in Paris in 1987 by Anne Lacaton (born 1955) and Jean-Philippe Vassal (born 1954), has designed private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions and public spaces that reflects its advocacy of social justice and sustainability
