Lunch with an architect
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PORTRAIT : Shigeru Ban
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Shigeru Ban is certainly the first Pritzker Prize winner not to be a star architect. He works on normal commission work as well in disaster architecture. He likes to test all materials, he likes to look for their limits and believes that any material can be used in construction as long as safety is guaranteed.…
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PORTRAIT : Francine Houben
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Francine Houben was in Brussels at the end of 2023 to give a talk at a lunch with an Architect session in Flagey. Mister Emma was backstage to chat with the Mecanoo boss. People, Place, Purpose, Poetry and Mobility are the keywords of the Dutch office’s work. – – – – – – – – – – –…
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PORTRAIT : Eduardo Souto de Moura
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The winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2011 studied sculpture before turning to architecture at the University of Porto’s School of Fine Arts. He embodies the « Porto School », formed by the emblematic figures of Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza, which combines rigour and freedom, two approaches to construction that are difficult to reconcile, yet which…
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Portrait of DORTE MANDRUP
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Dorte Mandrup is a Danish architect who founded her studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter in 1999. She imagines architecture in the context of its environment. Out of conviction and ethics, Dorte Mandrup refuses to work in autocratic countries. She has gained worldwide renown for the projects she builds on particularly fragile sites. In 2022, her studio…