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Forests first

Lecture by Simon CERF-CARPENTIER, with the participation of Valérie CABANES

Doctoral Trajectories and Disciplinary Worlds through the Prism of the Ecological Transition

Closing keynote lecture of the inaugural doctoral seminar of EDT62 Speaker: Panos MANTZIARAS, Director of the Fondation Braillard Architectes Date & time: 17 December | 17:30 To attend the lecture: Online: http://cutt.ly/ahWrsoH More information below: https://uclouvain.be/…/seminaire-inaugurale-de-l-edt-62… Event organised by: UCLouvain – Université catholique de Louvain ULB – Université libre de Bruxelles Université de Liège UMONS […]

The Archives Fund

The Braillard Architects Foundation is pleased to announce that the inventory of its archives is now accessible!

Are we ready for the tran­si­tion? – Espazium/Tracés, 10.11.2020

Article on the Greater Geneva Consultation: How to conceive the border area of the Greater Geneva in the Anthropocene era? The seven multidisciplinary teams involved in the consultation responded with one voice: by radically changing our approach to the territory, our way of thinking and our tools. But are we capable of it?

Maurice Braillard – Urban verticals

Exhibition organised in the context of the www.journeesdupatrimoine.ch Visits commented by Paul Marti at the Braillard Architects Foundation Press article in the Geneva Tribune. Brochure to be downloaded here. Maurice Braillard – Urban verticals In its premises rearranged for the occasion, the Braillard Architects Foundation presented an exhibition of tower projects developed by the architect, […]

Design the transition, now. #4

Design the Transition, Now. IMAGINING TRANSITIONAL URBAN REALMS Thursday, June 18th | 5 – 7 pm Video-debate For the final session of the series “Design the Transition, now”, the Braillard Architects Foundation, metrolab.brussels and LASUR Faculté de l’environnement naturel, architectural et construit ENAC – EPFL invite you to attend the presentations of Rob Hopkins and […]

Geneva at the test of sustainability

To close the conferences series “Visions for Geneva” organised in 2007 by the Braillard Architectes Foundation on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, this work examines – from a sustainability perspective – the territorial dynamics underway within the French-Swiss agglomeration. The “Greater Geneva” is broached from different angles: identity, institutions, politics and economy, but also […]

Building up stories

The rise of storytelling in urban planning is concomitant with the end of what have been called great narratives. The narrative of town planning, as Secchi defined it in the 1980s – namely a progressive and emancipatory rhetoric associated with the transformations of the city – gives way to simply introducing a plot of urban […]

In the wake of failure

At the dawn of the 21st century, the people of Geneva rejected two major urban development projects in quick succession. The first concerned the Place des Nations, the second the Place Neuve, two strategic locations in the city. This succession of failures of the policy led by the authorities in terms of urban planning was […]

Maurice Braillard and his planners

Challenge of the new Geneva, peremptory and timeless, the Master plan of 1935 brings together four urban planners: Maurice Braillard, head of the Department of Public Works, Albert Bodmer, Hans Bernoulli and Arnold Hoechel. A reflection on the theme of rejuvenating cities – developed by Braillard and his partners in 1929 – is attained with […]

L’industriel, l’architecte et le phalanstère

By 1914, the physical and social space of the city of Ugine in the Savoie department was disrupted by the construction of electric steelmaking plants. In order to attract and secure the necessary labour force to operate the factories near the production site, the industrialist Paul GIROD and his architect Maurice BRAILLARD designed an original […]

From Athenaeum to transition: cities as a cradle of the transformative imagination

From Athenaeum to transition: cities as a cradle of the transformative imagination The Geneva Athenaeum (the foundations of which house the Braillard Architects Foundation) bears a name that is not entirely trivial. Retracing its history goes back to Adrian, the Roman emperor of the Philhellenes, whose Atheneum housed the arts and letters in honor of […]

Design the transition, now! #1

Video debate: In these times of great change and as part of the Design the Transition series, the Braillard Architects Foundation, Metrolab.Brussels and LASUR/EPFL invite you to an exceptional discussion session to open up the ecological and resilient horizon of our societies. How to interpret the current unprecedented situation through the prism of the ecological […]

Design the transition III | The ground and its values

Keynote speaker “The decarbonised city: back to Earth, back to the earth” Guillaume FABUREL, Professor, University Lumière Lyon 2, UMR Triangle The metropolitan urban regime could be characterised by a growing dematerialisation of economies. However, it should be noted that it also stands out through an increasing artificialisation of living spaces and an augmenting extractivism […]

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