Agence
Manuelle Gautrand Architectes
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Manuelle Gautrand (1961)
(F)
Manuelle Gautrand (1961)
Manuelle
Gautrand first established her agency in Lyons, in 1991, and then moved
to Paris in 1993. She has written and exhibited a great deal, and won several
prizes (A.M.O., 2000; Jeune Architecture, 1992). She has already completed
a very large number of works, be they industrial, university or cultural
buildings. Some architects might deem it necessary to look elsewhere for
tomorrow's architectural solutions (biotechnology, fractal geometry, chaos
theories, computer technology etc.), but, quite to the contrary, Manuelle
Gautrand is keen to make architecture evolve from within. This is where
she takes the most complex of issues and problems (technological, programmatic,
ecological, etc) in order to respond to them with her architect's methods:
by way of a bold choice of materials, daring application and implementation,
and through an at once pragmatic and experimental relation to technology.
It is in this spirit involving a technical and constructive mastery of innovation
that Manuelle Gautrand seeks a realistic articulation between environmental
and architectural issues, and between ecology and poiesis.