A CLEAR STAND Manifesto A., signed by a hundred professionals, is an essay on the new methods of city making. It offers a “new way of doing things” that is available at different scales of the city, building and housing. It shows how in Bordeaux,...
CORPUS OF ACHIEVEMENTS Over fifteen years, ANMA has delivered a series of singular and striking buildings, combining ordinary-extra, virtuous density, neighborhood unity, frugality and natural energy. Updating the agency’s own syntax, this monograph...
A COLLECTIVE REFLECTION ON PARIS What is the potential for development in Paris with regard to the challenges of sustainable development and the new urban practices that appear today? How can the city and nature still coexist, are there new ways of living, what...
ARCHITECTURE TODAY As an urban architect, Nicolas Michelin writes about the role of the architect facing the major challenges of today’s society. In tune with current events – crisis in the suburbs, sustainable development – but also with the...
A CASE STUDY FOR NEGOTIATED URBAN PLANNING The Bassins à Flot, one of Bordeaux’s industrial rights-of-way, is the subject of a large-scale urban project. As part of a project and idea negotiation workshop, architects and town planners meet in order to...
