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Not Doing/Overdoing: ‘Omission’ and ‘Excess’ – Lacaton & Vassal's Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais
Author(s) -
Wilson Robin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1673
Subject(s) - calais , allegiance , transgressive , humanities , art history , channel (broadcasting) , art , sociology , history , political science , law , engineering , geology , telecommunications , geomorphology , sedimentary depositional environment , structural basin , politics , world wide web , computer science
Is there any allegiance between the formal and the transgressive? Here architectural author and educator Robin Wilson explores two French projects by Lacaton & Vassal and Construire: the former being as pared back as the latter is exuberant. He investigates how despite the great variance in their aesthetic impact, they share ‘transgressive positions and a questioning approach to architectural production’.