Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize

[@hakka_moi]

“Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!” 👏👏👏

[@joshua99d]

As a student you learn so much from their way of thinking space. Truely inspiring.

[@milosjovic4402]

Absolutely!

[@deevism]

Mighty inspired by their work. Congratulations on winning the well deserved prize and the recognition of the tremendous worth of their practice.

[@liegtt]

Huge Respect to both of them. Congratulations on your achievements!

[@giuseppenativo2123]

I understand the reason why the committee awarded this firm. They are clearly underlining a topic, a problem, a very contemporary one to think and work about. It's like pushing attention on it. It's good. At the same time, this is the committee that, just until a very few years ago, used to laureate, every year, for decades, huge firms that had nothing to do with sustainability or social problems (pillars of the architecture education). My idea is that they should focus about who is worth to this prize, from today on. Continuing with their pseudo random behavior, next year they will prize a firm like BIG that has nothing to do with the winners of this edition. It's a new era we're living. Will the Pritzker be a spotlight for the architecture we really need or still the architecture that creates fancy shapes, ephemeral visions that will exist anyway, due to the luxury market/corporations/speculation? It's not anymore a matter of concrete or not concrete. It's a matter of direction. A 'Nobel' prize for architecture, compared to the real Nobel prizes for sciences, should be the symbol of the excellence, the research, the problem solved. I can't see anymore ZHA (or soon BIG) be honored with a 'Nobel'. The '90s' are over!

[@nickvsarch]

An inspiration to all young architects!

[@chinthakafernando4611]

They thoroughly deserved it! Amazing work

[@thestrategicarchitect7314]

Very inspiring, I should make a video explaining their success

[@arqpapadia]

En total armonía con la sostenibilidad! Demoler y reconstruir genera mayor desperdicio, consumo de materia prima y emisiones al ambiente. La durabilidad es fundamental, y en éste sentido su trabajo es un excelente ejemplo de cómo lograrlo a un bajo costo para la comunidad y medio ambiente. Felicidades

[@gracielalechuga4441]

Gran propuesta de revalorar lo existente y transformarlo, adicionandole valor. Con creatividad y un uso moderando de material se puede, gran enseñanza Arquitectos, aprendizaje a aplicar en nuestro proyectos, en el Centro Histórico hay mucho Inmueble por valorar, saludos del Lima-Perú, Felicitaciones por el Reconocimiento a su labor 👏👏😉👍

[@murilocarvalho4976]

Como é Bom ser legendado. Neste caso do depoimento inteiro entendimento. Feliz em ver cabeças como estás a simplificar nossa forma de ver. Parabéns a eles por tão belas ideias. Obrigado por compartilhar.

[@meltingice5697]

Congratulations! I hope also one day Kengo Kuma for Kyoto tourism center and Mike Pierce the Zimbabwean architect that built an "airconless" mall which he found inspiration from termite mounds.

[@juanpablog1914]

Yeah...ok.

[@SP95]

Une approche contemporaine innovante qui mérite reconnaissance 👏🎩

[@marsofiorillo2391]

Congrats. You two are amazing!

[@albertoiglesias18]

PRESENTE DESDE CHICAGOLAND *HOMIES ARQUITECT@S* Y QUÊ SIGÃN LOS ÊXITOS!!!!!! 👊🇲🇽🦅🦁😎🇲🇽👊

[@mareslimited6627]

Congrats. Felicitaciones

[@enriquer.aguilar8491]

Bien merecido. Su trabajo es impresionante. ¡¡¡Muchas felicidades!!!!

[@bokeikhankamza9676]

Congrats!!

[@YNArchitecture]

Great projet to improve the “grand ensemble “!

[@louisfernandes1365]

I already love them 😍

[@anamariamazzei]

Exelente la intervencion de Simon Velez

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

Damn... what a great news.

[@arqjuan86]

Edificios enfocados en su uso y en la gente, sin tanto alarde de formas o escalas. Felicitaciones !

[@leonyaelalbanillopez8914]

Realmente no ganaron el Pritzker por sus obras impresionantes, memorables o innovadoras; su trabajo es caracterizado por ser simplista y austero, la razón de ser merecedores del Pritzker es el porque de sus obras, ya que estos son diseñados en respuesta a las emergencias climáticas, sociales y ecológicas. El creer que es un alarde buscar crear algo bello al experimentar con las formas y los volúmenes es simplemente negar a la arquitectura como un arte, ya que ese de hecho es su principal objetivo.

[@arqjuan86]

@@leonyaelalbanillopez8914 Separemos cosas. Experimentar con formas y volúmenes hace parte de lo conceptual y es inherente a la arquitectura, no hay nada de malo en ello, con todo y eso, no podemos garantizar que se traducirá en algo bello, todo depende de lo bien ejecutada que esté la obra. Digo que es un alarde de formas porque a muchos arquitectos, especialmente los de la onda rockstar, les interesa mas ese lado para hacer un obra que les de su nombre en la historia y en una ciudad. Y en palabras del mismo Norman Foster me atrevo a decir que nuestro trabajo como arquitectos no es un arte, nos restringen muchas reglas, reglas que un artista normal no tiene. La Arquitectura tiene elementos artísticos, claro que sí, especialmente por el medio de representar y sobre todo por el impacto que dejan las obras en el paisaje, pero no es un arte propiamente dicho.

[@animecoolmoments2023]

thanks archdaily -philippine architects

[@greatmustis]

Excelente... Bien elegido

[@geraldoangelosilva]

Bravo!!!

[@heymarisita]

Me encanta que lo hayan ganado! Son unos genios! ;)

[@AP-cb3xo]

Cool!

[@sofiasouvatzoglou1719]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@xyg6578]

第一

[@ioeieattn1310]

Unsustainable concrete all the way!!

[@gelarjuventini]

lol, you didn't hear it what they said

[@ioeieattn1310]

@@gelarjuventini why, did they say anything about concrete?

[@WestPoled]

If it only were that simple. The sustainability does not come from a material per se but from it's application and long term strategy. I think it's really important to look at their projects holistically instead of screaming out one dimensional statements like this.

[@ioeieattn1310]

@@WestPoled ahaha ok professor, fine, I can agree its more sustainable to reuse instead of diminishing. But whats the sustainability of having large glazed surfaces? Cold bridges, huge amounts of concrete (highest producer of CO2/embodied energy in the industry)? Dont get me wrong, I like them as architects, and I do like the roughness of their buildings, but dont tell me they are sustainable!

[@kieranmortimer5884]

​@@ioeieattn1310 If I were you i'd be more concerned about the movement away from rural areas into urban centers and how the higher density affects the density of waste and energy uses. There is way more energy needed to sustain 1000 apartments on a small block compared to the 10 houses it may have supported before, and the same goes for how much waste is produced, how many jobs and services need to be present and so on.... I don't think it's as simple as calling one material sustainable and another one unsustainable because it depends on the intensity of use. If only 100 people relied on oil it would be sustainable for a very long time. With 7 billion people it is not. If a few million people drive electric cars that may be okay, but scale that up to billions of electric cars and you begin to see the inherent flaws in the material and transit systems supporting it.