BI Talk with Prof. Jean-Philippe Vassal
On Wednesday, April 20, between 18:00 and 19:30, the first BI Talk of the Summer Semester 2022 will take place. Our Guest, Prof. Jean-Philippe Vassal, an award-winning architect and academic, will give a lecture about the recent projects of his Paris based architecture office Lacaton & Vassal. The title of the presentation is "Work in Progress". Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss.
The BI Talk will take place in a hybrid format, on campus at Salzufer 6, 10587 Berlin, and via Zoom.
Below are the details for joining via ZOOM.
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Students across all disciplines are invited to participate in an interdisciplinary exchange. Be inspired and get to know new perspectives!
About Prof. Jean-Philippe Vassal
Jean-Philippe Vassal graduated as an architect from the École d’Architecture de Bordeaux in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he worked as an architect and urbanist in Niger in West Africa. Together with his partner Anne Lacaton, he opened the office Lacaton & Vassal in 1987. Vassal taught at many institutions across the globe. Currently he is a professor at the UDK in Berlin. Jean Philippe Vassal was a visiting professor at the Institute of Architecture at the TU Berlin from 2007 to 2010, where he headed the Department of Design and Interior Planning and the Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP). The well-known architect, who has held a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2012, has received numerous awards for his work.
About Lacaton & Vassal
Since the mid 1980es the office has revolutionized the way we work with low cost materials, how we upgrade social housing and how educational and cultural buildings can look like. Their collaborative work focuses on climate-friendly and social construction. They are known for their conversions in the field of social housing. Their aim is to preserve and convert buildings rather than demolish them. In doing so, they also incorporate the needs of the respective residents into their work. Their practice, Lacaton & Vassal, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trienal de Lisboa (2016); and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2019) along with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture for the transformation of 530 Dwellings at Grand Parc, Bordeaux. Recently, the architectural duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal received the most renowned prize in architecture: the Pritzker Prize, endowed with 100,000 euros.