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...]

First part of the interview to Jean Philippe Vassal [1954-], principal of Lacaton & Vassal with Anne Lacaton [1955], founded  in 1987.

Vassal is French, but was born in Casablanca [Morocco]. He lived and worked from 1980 to 1985 in Africa as architect and urban planner. Since then, Africa has strongly influenced the work of Lacaton & Vassal. [MORE...]

Building Communist Party Headquarters
Architect Oscar Niemeyer
Program Offices, auditorium, television studios, conference rooms
Client PCF
Completed 1967-1980 [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...]

Second part of the interview to Jean Philippe Vassal [1954-], principal of Lacaton & Vassal with Anne Lacaton [1955], founded  in 1987.

In this part of the interview, Jean Philippe presents us the office concepts on housing, density and the relation between architecture and budgets. [MORE...]