GLOBAL AWARD FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE™ 2017 CITÉ DE L’ARCHITECTURE & DU PATRIMOINE Palais de Chaillot - 45, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris M° Trocadéro / Iéna The Global Award for Sustainable architecture, urban renewal and academic Architecture™ was founded in 2006 by social responsibility. It defines architecture the architect and professor Jana Revedin. as an agent of empowerment, self- The Global Award Community, which consists development and civic rights. of the 55 contemporary architects from around The Global Award is run by the Cité de the globe who have received the award, l’architecture & du patrimoine Paris and works towards a sustainable architectural is under the patronage of unesco. ethic and fosters research, experimentation and transmission in the fields of sustainable CONTACTS CITÉ DE L’ARCHITECTURE & DU PATRIMOINE Cultural Development Marie-Hélène Contal, director [email protected] Press contacts CITÉ Fabien Tison Le Roux 0033 1 58 51 52 85 00336 23 76 59 80 [email protected] Caroline Loizel 0033 1 58 51 52 82 0033 6 86 75 11 29 [email protected] citedelarchitecture.fr 2 summary Invisible Resources by Jana Revedin P.4 Award-winners 2017 P.8 TAKAHARU TEZUKA + YUI TEZUKA P.8 by Marie-Hélène Contal SONAM WANGCHUK P.16 by Patrice Doat ASSEMBLE P.24 by Marie-Hélène Contal BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS & TALBOT SWEETAPPLE P.30 by Robert McCarter PAULO DAVID P.36 by Marie-Hélène Contal Bibliography & publications P.44 Founders & patrons P.46 Scientific committee & cultural partners P.48 Cover: Cliff House, Brian Mackay-Lyons & Talbot Sweetapple, Nova Scotia, 2008-2009 © Greg Richardson 3 Resource = Raw material, mineral energy resource; Invisible Resources but also: richness, abundance ; way out, by Jana Revedin solution; agent, capacity, ability What if we, in a characteristic inversion of the ecological approach, stopped subordinating the process to the final architectural product and, conversely, considered that this product should be defined as a function of the nature and the activation of the available - visible and invisible - resources? What if the quality of the process, its Resources form the toolbox of 1. Jana Revedin, “The Radican City: enrichment and meaning, its cultural Why Sustainable Living Space architectural conception and construction. adequateness and economic feasibility grows Like Ivy”, in : Marie-Hélène In these ecosophic times of global climate prevailed over the design of the product? Contal, Jana Revedin, Sustainable Design III : Towards a New Ethics for change and expiring renewable resources, If this happened, resources would be Architecture and the City, with a natural and recyclable building materials recognised as much more than mere raw foreword by Christopher Alexander, materials and natural, mineral or energy Gallimard Éditions Alternatives, are being re-discovered and their use is Paris, 2014. being re-invented: from stone to earth resources but, rather, as sources of richness 2. Ferdinand Tönnies, “Gemeinschaft and from wood to straw, old construction and abundance as much for the architect- und Gesellschaft: Grundbegriffe techniques are becoming contemporary lifelong-experimental-learner as for the der reinen Soziologie”, second architect-social-militant and the architect- through new processes of design. edition 1912, final edition 2005, researcher-transmitter. Because long-term Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, These are the new and old resources Darmstadt, 1878. programming and design processes “with of architecture, one of the fundamental 1 3. Upon arriving in exile in the people by the people” enable us to the United States in 1946, sciences of mankind. discover surprising dimensions of dialogue Walter Gropius, creator of the Yet, beyond these material resources and compromise which can - if we listen multidisciplinary experimental pedagogic approach of the of architectural design there are the well and watch closely - lead to obvious Bauhaus, established, together resources of architectural thought. solutions or “ways out”, just because they with Marcel Breuer and their are necessary, evident, affordable, scalable new generation of Harvard A crucial intellectual and sensual students, the tac, “The Architects reservoir for a paradigm change that is and shared by the strongest agent 2 Collaborative”, as a manifesto transforming the architect’s profession of human progress: community . of “a profession which employs collective design in the service before our very eyes: from the architect Asking wisely reflected questions instead of of society.” Walter Gropius' nearly product-producer to the architect proposing quick and repetitive (and, hence, forgotten publication “Architektur”, process-leader, who invests his expertise uncreative) answers can allow time – with its Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt, 1956. multiple capacities, endlessness, universal in the service of society's needs. availability, inexpensiveness and malleability The 2017 edition of the Global Awards - to take over the dialogue. In the “gained” for Sustainable Architecture is dedicated space offered by time invisible resources to this dialectical relationship: the will join the visible ones as agents of change broadening of the material, technical and discoverers of true potential. and aesthetic resources of architecture The reintegration of time opens the way for in sense and meaning to form an an experimentally reformist architecture architecture of resources which includes which, as put beautifully by Walter Gropius the immaterial and invisible agents of in his unparalleled holistic learning-by- time, rights, community, processes, flows, example approach, acts “in the service of interdisciplinary dialogue, resilience, society”3. It no longer considers – and this senses and experimentation. Endlessly is a new theoretical direction - the project renewable themselves, these nourish as the design of the perfect product but, rather, as a long-term process of the architect’s formation, profession and improving inhabited milieux. The architect lifelong learning. emancipates himself from his roles as an agent of vertical and radical political timescales and as an Olympian fighter for commercial assignments. Instead, 4 he returns to society and reconsiders his Sometimes these programmes join with 4. “Locus: the at once singular and universal relationship between a uniquely wide, yet truly responsible, political members of communities to execute self- certain specific location and the and professional role. built prototypes; sometimes they donate buildings that are in it.” Aldo Rossi We are currently exploring the new (and modular constructional kits or engineering “L´architettura della città”, Clup, concepts to the open-source web- Milan, 1966 yet so ancient!) paradigm of the civic community. 5. Carl Gustav Jung, “Approaching responsibility of our profession: Habitat, the Unconscious”, in: “Man and city, milieu are being seen and documented This necessary revival, which is consistently his Symbols”, Dell Publishers, New under the complex influence of all based on the knowing investment of York, 1964. available resources, human experience and such invisible resources as time, needs, 6. or, as Rossi beautifully puts it: community, flows, rights, experimentation “The biography of a city is written aspiration, the sedimentary timescale of the analogously between the lines, in city and the long-term rhythm of geography - and whose results must, of necessity, be a fabric of feelings.” Aldo Rossi, and climate. in the service of society - is taking place “The Analogue City”, in: “The fifty years after the learning-by-making Architecture of the City” (1966), with an introduction by Peter Learning from the existing, pedagogies established in Illinois, Berkeley 10 Eisenman, English edition, mit learning in the making or Venice and nearly a century after the Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bauhaus’ unequalled learning-revolution This analysis of place and of its milieux, 1982. The concept of analogy is which grew out of Walter Gropius’ borrowed, like the previous Locus this act of giving the floor to the unique pioneering methodology of mixing concept, by Christian Norberg- character of any local situation4, of listening Schulz in “Existence, Meaning artisanal, industrial and trading traditions, to users and uses, of experimenting with and Symbolism”, in: “Meaning in expertise and aspirations. The objective Western Architecture”, Electa, urban and architectural co-programming as of the Bauhaus’ experimental work, which Milan, 1974, English edition Rizzoli, a form of civic catalyst and of persuading was organised in long-term curricula and New York, 1980. inhabitants and ourselves – the architects – 7. Juhani Pallasmaa, “The eyes reciprocal consulting sessions that used to accept extensive dialogue and sensibly of the skin: Architecture and open-work learning dialogues11, was the elaborated compromise during the Senses”, John Wiley & Sons, development of “adequate, affordable and Chichester, 2005. a collective process of co-conception and scalable” design concepts, which were 8. Jane Jacobs, “The death and life co-construction naturally requires time. “ready for reproduction yet typical for our of great American cities”, Vintage But there are two invaluable dimensions Books, New York, 1961. times.” which it requires even more: humility 9. Hannah Arendt, “The Human Translated to the current architectural and curiosity. Condition”, University of Chicago