Series of conferences 2016 | Sustainable utopias
Articulating its scientific function and public role in a single series of events, the Braillard Architects Foundation pursues its mission based on the observation of the impact of urbanisation on the ecological balance. Called ‘Anthropocene’, the current era of our Earth during which the transformations caused by humans are becoming significant, even dominant and above […]
Series of conferences 2017 | Think Big. Metropolisation in the Anthropocene
The first decade of our millennium was marked by the shift of most humans into an urban environment. We have known this since the beginning of industrialisation: cities are becoming metropolises; metropolises are turning into mega-cities; city regions, city territories and city landscapes are multiplying. With each change of scale, complex political and socio-economic changes […]
Series of conferences | Design the transition
The Braillard Architects Foundation and Metrolab Brussels, in collaboration with the University of Geneva and the Catholic University of Louvain – faced with the challenge of ecological transition – organised the first series of six monthly seminars aimed at exploring the new role of space transformation disciplines (architecture, town planning, landscaping). Set up in […]
Series of conferences | Design the transition II
Design the transition II Tools and devices for the ecological metropolis project Programme Introduction to the series | February 28th The third places of social economy | March 28th Transitory occupations | April 25th Circular economy | May 23rd New metropolitan agriculture | June 20th Locations The seminars will be held simultaneously in Geneva […]
2nd intermediary dialogue
During this day, the 7 teams of the Consultation on the Greater Geneva met the experts for the second time. After a brief presentation of their projects to all the guests, they gave in-depth answers to the questions of three panels of experts during round tables. After this intense day organised at the sports complex […]
Explore: round table around the Greater Geneva Consultation
Round table presentation to the Geneva public of the “Prospective Visions for Greater Geneva. To inhabit the landscape city of the 21st century” Consultation. With the 7 selected teams. Moderation: Panos Mantziaras, director of the FBA, and Pascal Schouwey, RTS activity leader. Info: https://www.ge.ch/dossier/explore
Presentation at the Milan Triennial 2019
MILANO ARCH WEEK 2019 – TRIENNALE MILANO Milano Arch Week is a week of lectures, conversations, workshops and itineraries on the main challenges of contemporary urban transformations. Milano Arch Week explores the future of architecture and cities through a polyphony of voices: architects, urban planners, landscape designers, scientists, philosophers, artists, and curators from all over […]
Maurice Braillard: Swiss pioneer of modern architecture
Exhibition at the Rath Museum in Geneva From April 1st to May 30th, 1993 Exhibition curator: Ursula Paravicini Architects-museographers: Michel Buri and Serge Candolfi See the Publication resulting from the exhibition
Consultation Greater Geneva
On the initiative of the Braillard Architects Foundation, a consortium of partners is launching the urban-architectural and landscape consultation entitled “Prospective Visions for Greater Geneva. To inhabit the landscape city of the 21st century” Consultation. International and interdisciplinary, its ambition is to gather elements of knowledge and to develop scenarios of evolution by the project […]
The ground of cities, resource and project
SEE + SEE THE VIDEO PROGRAMME Introduction URBAN SOIL: AN INERT SURFACE OR A LIVING RESOURCE? Elena HAVLICEK, Pedologist – Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication, Federal Office of Environment, Department of Substances, Soil and Biotechnology THE GROUND IN THE HORIZONTAL METROPOLIS Paola VIGANÒ, Architect – professor Laboratory of Urbanism, Swiss […]
Sustainable Utopias | After the crisis, episodically
SEE THE VIDEO Jean-Louis VIOLEAU, Sociologist, professor at the ENSA Paris Malaquais, director of the research unit ACS-UMR AUSser MCC/CNRS 3329 Well adapted, calm and compliant, in short conformist: being fully of one’s time prevents one from observing it up close in order to better understand it. The present has become so overwhelming […]
Sustainable Utopias | Risky objects: the sustainable gamble of the architectural project
SEE THE VIDEO Inès LAMUNIÈRE, Architect, professor EPFL, director of LAMU/EPFL, founding member of the architectural firm Designlab-architecture, Geneva The grandiose visionary projects that Hugh Ferris or Le Corbusier proposed in the early 1930s still haunt our minds. They envisioned a city that would effectively combine urbanisation and transport infrastructure. Is the utopia […]
Sustainable Utopias | Door-to-door, a pragmatic utopia
SEE THE VIDEO Dominique ROUILLARD, Architect, professor at the National School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais, director of the research unit LIAT. Founding member of the architecture and town planning agency Architecture Action. Faced with environmental and planetary issues, the speaker called for the establishment of a pragmatic vision, far from the apocalyptic and […]
Sustainable Utopias Geneva debate 2016 – Geneva territory, an open work
SEE THE VIDEO With: Adrien BESSON, Architect engineer, doctor in sciences EPFL, founding member of the architectural firm group8, Geneva Alain LÉVEILLÉ, Architect engineer and town planner, former head of the Research Centre of CRR urban renovation of the Institute of architecture of the University of Geneva Michèle TRANDA-PITTION, Architect and town planner, teaching […]
Sustainable Utopias | Urban solar infrastructures, a utopian manifesto
SEE THE VIDEO Raphaël MÉNARD, Architect engineer, professor at EPFL, co-manager of the design office Elioth (Egis Concept) In the past, in cities, energy came from the ground. In the past, that was before there was gas on all floors and before the electricity fairy was introduced into all rooms. In the past, the […]
Sustainable Utopias | What remains of the Corbusian utopia?
SEE THE VIDEO Round table facilitated by: Sylvie ANDREU, Journalist and author, specialist in urban, landscape and territorial issues. With: Nicola BRAGHIERI, Architect, professor at EPFL, director of the architecture section ENAC/EPFL. Rémi PAPILLAULT, Architect town planner, professor at ENSA Toulouse, administrator of the Le Corbusier Foundation. Yannis TSIOMIS, Architect town planner, director of […]
Braillard Geneva tour | Towards new green porosities
Towards new green porosities From Palais Wilson to Place des Nations Brochure of the guided tour Programme Square Château Banquet Maurice, Pierre and Charles Braillard (buildings), Bernard Muller (landscape architecture), 1953-1957 Hanging garden, rue des Garages Pierre Deléamont, Maurice Braillard and Louis Vial, Peyrot & Bourrit, Jean Calometti, 1912-1932 Square Foyer Sécheron […]
Geneva workshop 2016 | Living tomorrow in a low-density city
Living tomorrow in a low-density city | Intensive prospective analysis workshop at the Berges de Vessy 24 September – 1 October 2016 The Swiss Federal Law on Spatial Planning – known as LAT 2013 – is a radical game-changer regarding the objectives and modalities of Swiss urban planning for the years to come. It imposes […]
The city of the rich and the city of the poor
SEE + Bernardo Secchi day 2016 The city of the rich and the city of the poor The Braillard Architects Foundation (FBA) organized the Bernardo Secchi Study Day with the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U) of EPFL and the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). The Day took place as part […]
Braillard Architects Foundation | Living heritage: sustainable utopias
Exhibitions: Nature, energies and heritage The Berges de Vessy are on display! The house of the future presents two exhibitions “Nature, energies and heritage” and “Keepers”. “Nature, energies and heritage” (on the ground floor) The Berges de Vessy association (Braillard Architects Foundation, H2O-Energies, Patrimoine suisse Genève, Pro Natura Genève, Industrial Services of Geneva and […]
The soil of cities. Resource and project
Presentation Work published resulting from the Bernardo Secchi Day 2015 The ground has remained long buried during the construction of cities. Lost among the foundations of our infrastructures, under the cellars of our buildings or the coating of our streets, it remains a resource that is too often ignored by urban modernity, which has […]
Geneva Seminar 2016
CONTEXT The COP21 in December 2015 in Paris concluded with a historic agreement on the measures to be taken in the face of global warming. It specifically pointed to the urban challenge as one of the major projects of the 21st century. Life sciences, experimental and exact sciences, and human and social sciences are […]
Think Big | Gross-Berlin unlimited ?
Celina KRESS, Engineer-architect, doctor in history, lecturer and researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin Gross-Berlin Unlimited? From urban growth to new city-countryside connectivity After decades of stagnation, Berlin’s population is growing rapidly again. Recent development reminds of the dynamics, aspirations and visions of the beginning of the 20th century. Berlin was […]
Participatory project: Students work on migrants’ homes – TDG, 5/2/2017
Think Big | Greater London through the prism of the ecological transition
SEE THE VIDEOMichael HEBBERT, historian, doctor in geography, professor, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London Greater London through the prism of the ecological transition London is a valuable case study of the interplay between metropolitan management and environmental performance. Until World War II, it was known for its unlimited, polycentric and low density structure. […]
Think Big | Megapolis on a “grand” scale: Paris-Moscow
SEE THE VIDEO Bertrand Lemoine, architect engineer, doctor in history, former secretary-general of the International workshop of the Greater Paris. Megapolis on a “grand” scale: Paris-Moscow Paris and Moscow are the two big megalopolises of continental Europe. Beyond their similarities (history, national importance, demographic weight, riverside position, radio-concentric structure, rapid 20th-century expansion, centre-periphery contrast, etc.), […]
Think Big | Planning the heterogeneous city: the Mumbai development plan 2014-34
Christine Lutringer, Political scientist, lecturer/researcher, EPFL Luca Pattaroni, Doctor of sociology, lecturer/researcher, EPFL Planning the heterogeneous city: controversy arenas of the Mumbai plan 2014-34 This conference will examine the revision and temporary suspension of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034 (MDP 2034) following the mobilisation of civil society and strong criticism from experts. This […]
The bee, mirror of man
The bee, mirror of Man? Exhibition The cultural bee Participation in this exhibition by the Braillard Architects Foundation, in collaboration with Patrimoine Suisse Genève, consisted of a non-exhaustive inventory of the bee figure in all its forms through art and architecture. The Berges de Vessy welcome you for a journey into the fantastic world […]
Think Big | The New York metropolis, or the untraceable region
SEE THE VIDEO Jean-Louis Cohen, Architect, doctor in art history, architecture and urban planning historian, New York University The New York metropolis, or the untraceable region New York was the first city to be the subject of a regional plan, started in 1923 and completed in 1929, under the leadership of George […]
Think Big | Geneva debate 2017: Metropolises and density
SEE THE VIDEO Anne VEUTHEY, geographer and landscaper, presents “Au dessus des toits” (Over the rooftops), a master’s thesis in territorial development, training offered by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Geneva School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape (Haute École du Paysage, de l’Ingénieur et de Architecture, HEPIA). Geneva debate | Metropolises and […]