When architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal received the commission to redesign a small, triangular plaza in a residential district in Bordeaux, France, in the mid-1990s, they decided ...

Lacaton & Vassal will give the annual Soane Medal lecture tonight and receive a replica of a gold medal that was presented to Sir John Soane by the Architects of England in 1835. The photography ...

When the French architect Jean-Philippe-Vassal was practicing urban planning in Niger, West Africa, in the mid-1980’s, he observed people with very few resources assembling and inventing architecture ...

French architects and educators Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have been named the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize.The duo, principals of Lacaton & Vassal Architectes, are ...

French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are the recipients of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize. The pair founded Lacaton & Vassal in Paris in 1987 and have devoted their ...

Lacaton and Vassal met at in architecture school in Bordeaux in the 1970s and have since refined an approach to their craft that is modest and practical. Indeed, ...

They miss the point that architecture’s primary function is to do exactly what Lacaton and Vassal are doing, and respond to the social, political and environmental context in which it is built.

When architects Lacaton & Vassal were commissioned to improve the Place Léon Aucoc in Bordeaux in 1996 they didn't do much at all. In fact they left it pretty much as it was, with an instruction ...

Apparent both in the manifesto and in Lacaton & Vassal's previous housing projects was a gesture that would become a defining one for the architects, and particularly at the Transformation of 530 ...

French studio Lacaton & Vassal and Chilean studio UMWELT have been revealed as the recipients of the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale's Lifetime Achievement Award and Début Award, respectively ...

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, known for transforming and revitalizing neglected buildings across France, have been named winners of architecture’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize.. The ...

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, known for transforming and revitalizing neglected buildings across France, have been named winners of architecture’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize.. The ...