HINWEIS:
Aufgrund einer unvorhergesehenen Terminkollision können Stéphanie Bru und Alexandre Theriot nicht nach Innsbruck kommen. Ihr Vortrag muss damit leider abgesagt werden.
Stéphanie Bru und Alexandre Theriot zählen sich selbst zu VertreterInnen jener Generation nach den „Star-Architekten“, die nicht die Form, sondern die Menschen als NutzerInnen in den Vordergrund stellen. Ihre Projekte – etwa die „Maison de l’imagination et de la recherche“ in Caen, das Kultur- und Sportzentrum Saint-Blaise in Paris oder das Life-Sciences-Gebäude der EPFL Lausanne – sind geprägt von einer reduzierten Formensprache verbunden mit offenen Raumstrukturen und flexiblen Grundrissen. Denn ihnen ist es wichtig, „Möglichkeitsräume“ anzubieten, in denen sich Nutzungen weiterentwickeln können.
Passend zum Thema der aktuellen Ausstellung werden sie bei ihrem Vortrag „The norm and the unsettled“ über ihren persönlichen Umgang mit Normen und Standards sprechen.
„As architects, we are constantly confronted with the standard. Behind every line we draw, every shape we draw, there is already a materiality induced. Such thickness implies such a type of material. But this material never comes alone. Its "technical performances", which it is so proud to present, act as guarantors, so that it can be used with confidence. Sometimes it is even referred to as an "implementation suggestion", as there are "preparation suggestions" on some food products. These figures, these recipes, it was others than us who established them. It is not that we do not trust them, but if we are going to work (with) a material, we would like its discovery to be done with us alone. This is the risk to be taken to ensure that our projects are signed to the end of their materiality.
Our architecture is without pretense. In our company, everything speaks for itself. And so, our duty is sometimes to teach new words, even a new language, to certain elements that threatened to talk.
Industrial materials can discover the rhetoric of technological assemblies or the sensitivity of a relationship to light variations. By being used against nature, some elements find second nature. By contagion of uses or production methods, new potentials are emerging. This versatility of matter, its reinvention on and by itself, is undoubtedly the philosopher's stone of architectural practice. This revelation of a poetic and economic potential, beyond the "tests" carried out upstream by the manufacturers, is our competence.
The risk we take in some implementation choices is ultimately the risk that the material has allowed us to take. Norms, standards and other recommendations should not be merely a means of constraining the art of building. We are obviously sponsored by constructive rigor, but we do not want a pre-established constructive "discipline" that would dictate our procedures, and therefore our aesthetics. When we build, we establish our own "rule of the game", a term in which "game" is as important as "rule". But rather than throwing the dice, let us start by launching constructive bets, prior to any new project.“ (Bruther)
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stéphanie bru geb. 1973; Architekturstudium an der École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Belleville; u. a. 2018 – 19 Gastprofessorin an der EPFL, Lausanne
alexandre theriot geb. 1972; Architekturstudium an der École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Marne-la-Vallée; seit 2019 Professor an der ETH Zürich
seit 2007 gemeinsames Büro Bruther in Paris
bauten und projekte (Auswahl)
2011 – 14 Kultur- und Sportzentrum, Paris; 2013 – 15 Kultur- und Forschungszentrum, Caen; 2013 – 17 Residence for Researchers, Cité internationale de Paris; 2016 – 21 Life-Sciences-Gebäude der EPFL, Lausanne; 2017 – 21 „Frame“ Medienhaus, Brüssel; 2018 – 21 Revitalisierung der Galeries Lafayette, Pau
Ein Vortrag im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Legislating Architecture | Architecting after Politics" mit freundlicher Unterstützung von sto
Ein Projekt von Brandlhuber+ und Christopher Roth, das aktuelle Fragen nach der politischen Handlungsfähigkeit von ArchitektInnen verhandelt: Wer gestaltet Gesetze? Was gestaltet Architektur? Wem gehört der Boden?
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