This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
19:00
RCR BUNKA. OPEN PROGRAM: LACATON & VASSAL
More info
Conference
. Olot
Organizes
COAC
Place
Pati de l'Hospici
Olot
Time
At 7pm
Price
Free
More info
The COAC and CentreObert, through the Garrotxa-Ripollès Delegation, collaborate in organizing the RCR BUNKA. OPEN PROGRAM, which accompanies the RCR Summer Workshop, the international workshop organized each summer by RCR Arquitectes and the RCR BUNKA Foundation.
The universe of shared creativity
This year, the program will revolve around the theme “SHARING” and will consist of a series of five lectures. As in previous editions, the talks will be accompanied by a selection of video creations that, under the title “FOREST MATTER,” celebrate the poetic power of trees.
Olot will host, on this occasion, another Pritzker Prize winner: the French architecture firm Lacaton & Vassal (Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal), who will talk to us about open space. For them, architecture is freedom, generosity, and pleasure. Large spaces generate an essential feeling of escape and freedom, facilitate appropriation, and promote social life. Their practice was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2021. The presentation of this lecture will be given by Llàtzer Moix, cultural journalist and architecture critic.
Lacaton & Vassal
Anne Lacaton (Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, France, 1955) graduated from the School of Architecture of Bordeaux in 1980. She earned a diploma in Urban Planning from the University of Bordeaux in 1984. She has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2017. She has been a guest professor at the Higher Technical School of Madrid (ETSAM-UPM), Master in Housing since 2007; at EPFL Lausanne, in 2004, 2006, 2010-11, and 2017; at the University of Florida: Ivan Smith Studio in 2012; at the University of NY-Buffalo: Clarkson Chair in 2013; at the Pavillon Neuflize OBC-Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2013 and 2014; at Harvard GSD: Kenzo Tange 2011 and Design Critic 2015; at the University of Sassari in Alghero in 2014 and 2015; and at TU Delft, in the semesters of 2016-17.
Jean-Philippe Vassal (Casablanca, Morocco, 1954) graduated from the School of Architecture of Bordeaux in 1980. He worked as an urban planner in Niger (West Africa) from 1980 to 1985. He has been a professor at UDK Berlin since 2012. He has been a visiting professor at TU Berlin, from 2007 to 2011; at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf, in 2005; at EPFL Lausanne from 2010 to 2011; at the Pavillon Neuflize OBC-Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2013 and 2014; and at the University of Sassari in Alghero, in 2014 and 2015.
The Lacaton & Vassal studio has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021, the Lifetime Achievement Award, Lisbon Triennale (2016); and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Contemporary Architecture Award of the European Union (2019) together with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture for the transformation of 530 Housing Units in Grand Parc, Bordeaux.