Arq. Anne Lacaton - Francia

Anne LACATON & Jean Philippe VASSAL
firm : LACATON & VASSAL architects, office in Paris

Anne Lacaton
born in france : 2/8/55
Diploma Bordeaux Architecture school,   France, 1980 and town planning, 1984
Visiting professor at Architecture school of Lausanne , wint. 2003-2004, sum.2005-2006

awards :
Sustainability and residential Innovation Prize, City of Madrid, 2006
Erich Schelling Award 2006 - Fondation Erich Schelling, Karlsruhe
Grand Prix National d'Architecture Jeune Talent, Ministry of Culture, France, 1999
Lauréats des Albums de la Jeune Architecture, France, 1991
Mies Van der Rohe Award   - E U Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Finalist in 2007 for the Business and Management School, University of Bordeaux, France, and in 2003 for the Palais de Tokyo, Site for contemporary creation Paris, France

Main works completed :
several private houses in France : house Latapie at Floirac-Bordeaux, house in Coutras, both very economical, house in the trees on the Arcachon Bay, a country house in the Dordogne, a coastal house in Britany, a social housing programme of 14 apartments in Mulhouse. In this programme we have developped (as in the private houses already completed) generous spaces, increasing a lot the usual standard of social housing, according to the needs of the contemporary life.

and also : the Arts and Humanities faculty at the University of Grenoble, an office building in Nantes, the Café for the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna, the Palais de Tokyo, Site for contemporary creation, in Paris, a Business and Management school for 3000 students in Bordeaux, an Exhibition hall (16 500 sqm) in Paris, a winery in the Corbières.

Projects currently underway : architecture school in Nantes (underconstrution), transformation of a high rise building of 96 social housing apartments in Paris, housing projects in St Nazaire

Monography : Lacaton & Vassal, 2G Books, Editorial GG, Barcelona, 2007

Book : "PLUS, large scale housing development. An exceptional case", Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, Editorial GG, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, sept. 2007