The towers of Maurice Braillard and the future of Geneva

The Braillard Architects Foundation organised a screening of the documentary “Verticales Urbaines”, devoted to the visionary projects of Maurice Braillard, followed by a debate re-examining forms and densities through the prism of the ecological transition for the future of Geneva.   With Philippe MEIER Architect, Meier+associés architectes, Geneva; lecturer at HEPIA Mathias STOCKER Boltshauser Architekten, […]

Maurice Braillard – Verticales Urbaines (the film)

MAURICE BRAILLARD – VERTICALES URBAINES Directed by: Aurélie Doutre Narration: Paul Marti, historian Production: Braillard Architects Foundation The European Heritage Days in 2020 gave rise to an original initiative: the presentation, on the premises of the Braillard Architects Foundation, of an exhibition dedicated to the unbuilt towers of Maurice Braillard. Today, the Foundation has the […]

CALL FOR PROJECTS | Transition Seeds 2023

The Transition Seeds lecture series is back for the third year: the Braillard Architects Foundation is launching an open call for diploma projects in architecture, landscape and urban planning whose philosophy, strategy and design proposals are in line with its culture and research programme The Eco-Century Project (ECP). We are looking for young graduates who […]

Geneva Seminar 2021

Watch the video of the presentations of the Transition Workshop and Luxembourg in Transition teams.

METROPOLITAN FORMS AND CONSTELLATIONS

Designing the Grand Genève of the transition remains, ultimately, an eminently creative mission: a material translation, into landscapes, neighbourhoods and buildings, of our collective hope for a new habitability of the Earth. Speakers Milica TOPALOVIC Architect, urban planner, Associate Professor at ETHZ D-ARCH Stefano BOERI Architect, president of the Triennale di Milano   Lectures followed […]

Designing the Transition of Grand Genève | Shared Resources

Shared Resources How can we turn our inhabited territories into active carbon sinks and havens of biodiversity while maintaining their social appeal? How can we make our cities resilient to the harmful effects of climate change while benefiting from their cultural and heritage wealth? Together, of course, through forms of solidarity, exchange and the pooling […]

Transition Workshop 2021

Information and applications for the transition workshop to be held in Geneva, online from 1.06.21 to 9.7.21 and in person from 12.7.21 to 23.7.21.

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