Archilab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture (2001)；ArchiLab ( ArchiLab projects every year from 1999 to 2008)

Archilab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture

Frédéric Migayrou, Marie-Ange Brayer

Thames & Hudson, 2001 - Architecture - 528 pages

Over the last five years, the world of architecture has seen enormous changes in the sensibilities of young architects engaged in the complex issues presented by computerization and globalization. Their responses to this ever-shifting background for architecture and urbanism are surprising and challenging, and provide clues to how we might live and work in the future.

The brainchild of eminent critic and curator Frederic Migayrou, ArchiLab draws on an unprecedented range of sources and inspiration. The young architects featured here are extending the boundaries of spatialization, construction, and the human understanding of the built world. The results are richly varied and instructive: coming from very different cultural contexts, each studio filters its work through personal and often political reactions to local conditions and global trends.

The architects are described through detailed profiles, and their most recent projects are presented in over 2,000 illustrations. With essays by today's leading critics, historians, and theoreticians, this ambitious volume is a phenomenal collection of architectural ideas, a stunning visual documentation, and an inexhaustible source of design inspiration.

About the author (2001)

Lisa Anne Couture received her master of architecture from Yale University and is currently a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York. She has taught as a Muschenheim fellow at the University of Michigan, and as a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the University of Montreal, among other institutions.
Hani Rashid received his master of architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art; he is an adjunct associate professor of architectue at Columbia University in New York. He has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design; the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, Germany; the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen; and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.
Frederic Migayrou is Conseiller pour les Arts Plastiques with the French Ministry of Culture in Orleans, France. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the Sorbonne and has written extensively on art, architecture, philosophy, and culture.
The texts have been written by Jane Alison, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Marie-Ange Brayer, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain du Centre, Orleans, France; Frederic Migayrou, Centre George Pompidou, Paris; and Neil Spiller, Bartlett School of Architecture, London.

Bibliographic information

Title	Archilab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture
Editors	Frédéric Migayrou, Marie-Ange Brayer
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	Thames & Hudson, 2001
ISBN	0500283125, 9780500283127
Length	528 pages

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ArchiLab

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ArchiLab is an annual architectural exposition and conference held in Orléans in France. So far, there have been ArchiLab projects every year from 1999 to 2008. 

ArchiLab 2001[edit]

More than 90 architects were invited to present their projects during the third International meeting on Architectureheld in Orléans in 2001. This meeting brings together the architects of the world for whom lodging together is a chance for thinking about new conceptual strategies. Faced with an increasing standardization in the construction industry and the fashion of dwellings in constant change, the challenge of the innovator is to adapt to these times of constant change. Modern communications have introduced us to a greater cultural diversity but, on the other hand, increasing industrialization has led to uniformity in the construction process.

The projects are grouped in a way to represent various attitudes towards the question of housing.

• Individual or collective habitation
• Flexibility
• Effects on landscape
• New life styles
• Subversion
• Form and process of creation

External links[edit]

Main ArchiLab website (bilingual English/French)
ArchiLab 2001 English-language site