Concrete has been formed in rigid molds since its invention in Ancient Rome. Very recently however, the possibility of a new architectural and structural language has emerged based on the use of flexible fabric formworks that are shaped by an internal response to the weight and pressure of wet concrete. This way of building results in works of great simplicity, economy, and beauty.
C+S believe that each project is unique and should act as a translation of the historical, socio-political, economical, physical and climatic contexts which they belong to. They define their research TranslationArchitecture™.
This Lecture, instead of linking architecture production to its proper history (history of architecture), proposes to draw a parallel between architectural production and the political history of Lebanon.
The 6th Goldstein Lecture in Architecture, Engineering, and Science
LOT-EK’s sustainable approach to construction through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial objects and systems has been the basis of projects at all scales. Committed to ecologically-responsible, intelligent methods of building, our team takes advantage of the technological properties of existing industrial objects resulting from decades of expert development, to create architecture.
THE 18TH PIETRO BELLUSCHI LECTURE
The 23rd Arthur H. Schein Lecture
The work of the studio is very diversified in its fields of operation. Different programs pose distinct questions and challenges and produce unique projects. The method of creating and designing is similar but due to the changing specificities of the buildings that are commissioned, that is not easily displayable.