Interview with the french architect François Roche [1961-], principal of R&Sie(n) since 1989, along with Stephanie Lavaux. With R&Sie(n), Roche has been exhibited his work at  Tate Modern, the Pompidou Center and MIT’s medialab to name a few. They also were invited to participate in Ordos100 project curated by Ai Wei Wei.

Based in Paris,  R&Sie(n) – a studio with a shop facade on street- is developing a work -and discourse- that is a possibility of resistance to the conventions, cowardness and naive moralism around a lot of architecture today . Supported in his crazy-genius approach, Roche has guts to do and tell what he wants. [MORE...]

In this last episode with R&Sie(n) co-director, he explains to us why they never use the context word related to their projects but a more comprehensive definition like biotope.
The last question is related to the suspicious media-world where there are a lot of architects doing the same:  just trying to be seeing. [MORE...]

In this third chapter with François Roche from R&Sie(n), speaks about Ordos100’s commission and the necessity to take a position about this. He explains also the legendary origin of his villa and the relation with a certain territory –not just physical context- that aspires to utopia. No matter of Chinese’s skepticism. [MORE...]

In this second episode with François Roche [1961-] of R&Sie(n), he makes a distinction between just a strategy –like movement- with a more transcendental task like dealing with indeterminism or uncertainty in some of his projects –i.e. Hybrid Muscle in Thailand or Dusty Relief in Bangkok-.

We also discuss the critical position in his approach: meanwhile most of the architects are applying deterministic approaches and doing finished products, he placed with a kind of blurriness around his practice, trying to do just the contrary. [MORE...]

Interview with the french architect François Roche [1961-], principal of R&Sie(n) since 1989, along with Stephanie Lavaux. With R&Sie(n), Roche has been exhibited his work at  Tate Modern, the Pompidou Center and MIT’s medialab to name a few. They also were invited to participate in Ordos100 project curated by Ai Wei Wei. [MORE...]

Building Asphalt Spot
Architects R&Sie(n)
Project Team François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro, Pascal Bertholio
Program 20 parking places, 300 m2 exhibition room, public facilities [MORE...]