Strategies of availability
Vortrag: Jacques Ferrier (Paris)
VortragStrategies of availability
"Our references are to be found less in highbrow architecture than in simple, popular constructions such as make-shift dwellings or industrial and farm buildings. Technology suited to drastic economy and functionalism is a way of settling into the site: agricultural or industrial hangars testify to technology that by nature becomes one with its environment. There is something self evident about the way these buildings are set on their sites and accept ageing, rust and later extensions. For, by definition, this work proceeds without any priori theory of form, and therefore naturally undergoes the influence of time and context.
The architectural and poetic qualities of these modest materials and technologies must be explored and revealed within the context of today´s briefs and sites: a sort of re-exploration of ready made, making it possible to capture the qualities of ordinary objects. Working on these "strategies of availability" can lead to a new way of looking at reality?"
Jacques Ferrier
Born 1959
1985 Graduate of the University of Paris 8 School of Architecture
1981 Graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris
1987-1989 Worked with Norman Foster in London before
1990 Setting up his own architecture firm in Paris
1993 Prix de la Première Oeuvre du Moniteur (Prize for a First Work) for the Research Centre of the Ecole des Mines de Paris in Evry, France.
Teacher at the Bretagne School of Architecture since 1996.
Associate Professor at the Ecole d?Architecture de Saint-Etienne 1993-1996.
Co-founder of the journal Dépliant.
Author of several articles, especially for amc, T&A and l?architecture aujourd?hui.
Author of Usines 1&2, Electa-Moniteur, 1987 and 1991.
Co-author of Architecture, Raison et Démesure, Nathan, 1988.
Co-author with Bernard Marrey of the Paris sous verre (Paris Under Glass) catalogue, Pavillon de l?Arsenal, 1997
Stratégie du disponible, édition Passage Piéton, 2000