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 […]
Portrait of the Foundation in “Bien vivre à Genève 2017” – 1/7/2017
Braillard Geneva tour | WIPO, the power of ideas
WIPO, the power of ideas Guided tour organised as part of the European Heritage Days 2017 PDF BROCHURE Programme: Georg Bodenhausen 1 building Pierre Braillard, 1958-1960 Arpad Bogsch tower Pierre Braillard, 1974-1978 PCT building Favre & Guth, renovation 2000-2003 New building Behnisch Architekten, 2008-2011 WIPO conference hall Behnisch Architekten, 2011-2014
Thirty years of the Braillard Architects Foundation | Future of the Greater Geneva, a model of sustainable metropolitanisation
The Braillard Architects Foundation (FBA) celebrated its 30th anniversary by organising an event oriented towards the future. To follow the visionary line of its founders, it prepared a round table with a certain number of personalities from political, scientific, artistic and professional circles to discuss the future of the Greater Geneva in the perspective of […]
Geneva town planning fortnight | Greece-Europe: the democratic space under construction
Public Space and Local Democracy in Contemporary Athens Democracy week – Town planning fortnight Urban public space as an object of analysis and a subject of action is often posited to be a core symbol of the collective will. Greek cities, beset by acute current problems but also shaped by long term historical […]
Urbanism of hope: projecting horizons of expectation
SEE THE VIDEO PROGRAMME INAUGURAL SPEECH: WHICH CITIES TO ENTER THE ANTHROPOCENE? Dominique BOURG, Philosopher, Full professor, Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne. Session 1: Theory and history BETWEEN “ARCOLOGY”, THE “LOCAL PROJECT” AND THE “HORIZONTAL METROPOLIS”: CONFRONTING THE DILEMMAS OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN HORIZONTALITY Christian […]
Urban inequalities: From the utopian project to sustainable development
Presentation Work published following the Bernardo Secchi Day 2016 Today, there is no guarantee that human societies can evolve sustainably. Insofar as this project represents our only possible collective horizon, it will be both the cause and the result of a drastic change in our lifestyles which will not succeed without everyone’s voluntary support. […]
Geneva Seminar 2017
Project presentation brochure CONTEXT The COP21 held in Paris in December 2015 concluded with a historic agreement on the measures to be taken in the face of global warming, specifically indicating the urban challenge as one of the major worksites of the twenty-first century. Life sciences, experimental and exact sciences, human and social […]
Greater Geneva: in three considerations, by Robert Cramer – TDG, 1/12/17
Design the transition | The Anthropocene as project horizon
Listen to the seminar (radio programme) Programme Introduction to the cycle THE ANTHROPOCENE AS PROJECT HORIZON Bernard Declève, Metrolab Brussels FROM RENEWAL TO URBAN TRANSITION: THE CHALLENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY Panos Mantziaras, FBA Keynote speech COMPETITION OF STORIES Dominique Bourg, philosopher, professor – Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences […]
Design the transition | New mobility
PROGRAMME Case study 1 THE BRUSSELS HYPERCENTRE: FROM PEDESTRIAN AREA TO URBAN PROJECT BSI/Brussels Center Observatory Dr. Aniss M. Mezoued & Pr. Jean-Philippe De Visscher, CULouvain Case study 2 NEW MOBILITY SOLUTIONS IN THE CANTON OF GENEVA: LINES OF THOUGHT AND PROJECTS Sylvain FERRETTI, Secretary-General of the Office of Urbanism of […]
Exhibition: Migrants, the damned of modern times – GHI, 7/3/2018
Exhibition: The human urgency under our eyes – TDG, 8/3/2018
“Maurice Braillard, pionnier suisse de l’architecture moderne”
Maurice Braillard Swiss Pioneer of Modern Architecture Ursula Paravicini and Pascal Amphoux, Braillard Architects Foundation, 1993 Book published for the exhibition “Maurice Braillard, pionnier suisse de l’architecture moderne” presented at the Musée Rath in Geneva from April 1st to May 30th, 1993. Available in French and German from the Foundation. Shop See the page dedicated […]
“Maurice Braillard, architecte & urbaniste”
Maurice Braillard Architect & urban planner Marina Massaglia Aït-Ahmed, Braillard Architects Foundation, Georg Éditeur, 1991 First monograph on Maurice Braillard. Available in French and German from the Foundation. Shop
“Pierre Braillard, un demi-siècle d’architecture”
Pierre Braillard Half a century of architecture in Geneva Pierre Braillard, Pierre Braillard Editions, Monaco, 2007 Book retracing the years of profession from 1932 to 1982. 425 pages. Available in French from the Foundation. Order the book
Design the transition | Transition through food
See the video Programme Case study 1 BETWEEN CITIZENS’ EXCITEMENT AND PUBLIC STRATEGY: CRITICAL VIEWS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FOOD TRANSITION IN BRUSSELS François Lohest, political scientist, Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, ULB Case study 2 METROPOLITAN AGRICULTURE AROUND LAKE GENEVA: A RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS Elena Cogato Lanza, Teaching and Research […]
Architecture and the new sustainable utopias
Interview with the director of the Braillard Architects Foundation, in the context of the “Utopian coffees” organised for the 30th anniversary of the AUPB (association des usagers des Bains des Pâquis). ARCHITECTURE AND THE NEW SUSTAINABLE UTOPIAS In 2016, we celebrated the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s book “Utopia”. The English humanist […]
Design the transition | Transition in the world of players
See the video Programme Brussels Case Thomas Dawance, chargé de projet au sein du Community Land Trust de Bruxelles. The Community Land Trust: Building the city on common land The Community Land Trust (CLT) is an American model of land management created at the end of the 1960s. It allows low-income households to […]
Design the transition | The work – territory relationship
See the video Programme Case study of Brussels Benjamin Cadranel, general administrator of Citydev.BrusselsProduction in the city to build the city To cope with the demographic boom of these next decades, the Brussels-Capital Region is striving to develop housing but also to nurture productive activities that are useful to the City. On the […]
In Geneva, the cable car of Mont Salève is to be revamped – Le Temps, 31/05/2018
The cable car of Mont Salève is to be revamped! – Le Messager, 08/06/2018
Design the transition — Year 1: Assessment and perspectives
Programme of the closing session Part 1 REMINDER OF THE FIVE SESSIONS Hélène Gallezot, Braillard Architects Foundation THE TRANSITION: QUESTION OF VALUES Panos Mantziaras, Braillard Architects Foundation First debate Sharing of the room and then the speakers on the following questions: At the end of this series, how do you see the challenges […]
Greater Geneva 2050: the call for projects is launched – Tracés, 28/6/2018
Braillard Geneva tour | The Salève cable car
The Salève cable car: for a shared territory Guided tour organised as part of the Heritage Days 2018. Brochure Inaugurated in 1932, the Salève cable car was hailed as a technological and architectural avant-garde achievement. The result of a collaboration between a promoter from Haute-Savoie, engineers from Paris and Genava and the architect […]
Eranos conference 2018
From September 5th to 9th, 2018 in Ascona, Ticino The Braillard Architects Foundation inaugurates its collaboration with the Eranos Foundation within the framework of conferences that the latter organises each year in Ascona, Ticino, with subjects tackling the great questions of our time with philosophy. The 2018 edition of Eranos Tagungen addresses the concepts of […]
