TEDx Countdown | The Architecture of Transition
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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?
Final presentations of the Greater Geneva Consultation – Team videos
OBJECTIVE 2050 – What will our Greater Geneva look like? – Together, the cross-border show/Léman Bleu, 16 octobre 2020
Braillard and his tower still in the clouds – TDG, 12/09/20
Article on the Maurice Braillard, urban verticals exhibition, which took place as part of the European Heritage Days 2020. Source: https://www.tdg.ch/braillard-et-ses-tours-restees-dans-les-nuages-824639025766
Design the transition – the book
Book resulting from the conference series Design the transition – year 1
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, […]
The future of the Greater Geneva. Seven ecological transition scenarios
Final presentation of the Greater Geneva Consultation.
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 […]
Design the transition, now! #3
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Post Coronavirus Ecological Front
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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! #2
The video of the debat is now available!
Forum of the transition
Discussion forum on the theme of the transition in the face of the pandemic crisis.
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 […]
Heritage and architecture – Rooftops and shelter
The FBA contributed to this work, born from the exhibition “Under the same roof”. To get as soon as possible!
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 […]
Geneva residents climb Mont Salève – Couleurs locales/RTS, 16/10/2019
Report on the Salève, its cable car and old funicular, with a visit to the Braillard Architects Foundation’s archives.
Towards the city-landscape of the 21st century, by Panos Mantziaras – TDG, 2/10/2019
Maurice Braillard and the Salève cable car – Poster
A1 poster format (594×841 mm) Limited edition on Conqueror Laid paper 160 gr.
Transition Workshop 2020
The FBA and its partners are launching the first experimental workshop on the ecological transition of cities, intended for professionals in space management, players and students.
Design the transition III | 2°: societies facing climate change
1st session of the Drawing the Transition III conference series, with: Edwin ZACCAI, doctor in environmental sciences, physical engineer and graduate in philosophy. Full professor at the Free University of Brussels. Director of the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (CEDD). Author of the book “Two Degrees”, Les Presses de Science Po, 2019 Two degrees: societies […]
Series of conferences | Design the transition III
Programme of the series of conferences 2020 – Changes due to the pandemic!
Racines modernes de la ville contemporaine (Modern tools of the contemporary city)
Book resulting from the Bernardo Secchi study day 2018.