Not Doing/Overdoing: ‘Omission’ and ‘Excess’ – Lacaton & Vassal's Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais | Zendy

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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’.

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