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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Truwant + Rodet
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DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Truwant & Dries Rodet \n16:00-17:00 - Charlotte Tr
 uwant & Dries Rodet  \nTeaching Assistant & Visiting Professor\, ETH Zur
 ich & ENSAV Paris\n\nTime As Material\n\nToday\, architecture is still con
 sidered an essentially static discipline. The obsession of architects is o
 ften focused on securing performance for the immutability of a building. B
 ut to be preserved in its “original state” and counteract the influenc
 e of time and the environment\, a building needs a lot of care. The garden
  around the building\, on the other hand\, grows\, adapts. Gardening is co
 nsidered an act of care and skill in which time plays the leading role. Hu
 midity\, sunlight\, bacteria\, fungi\, and fauna are kept in a healthy bal
 ance and contribute to the development of a garden or park that consequent
 ly benefits from and contributes to a larger ecosystem. Can architecture f
 oster development and change over time? Can we think architecture beyond a
 n idealized collective memory depicted without its context\, like a landma
 rk in a snow globe and find geographical and geological clues that inform 
 us about ecosystems\, histories\, and possible futures? Can we conceive of
  architecture as a place of interaction between stories\, spaces\, and peo
 ple? Is this diversity not the condition of contemporary architecture and 
 architectural production?\n\nShort bio: \n\nTruwant + Rodet + is a Basel-
 based architecture office founded in 2015 by Charlotte Truwant and Dries R
 odet. The cultural background of the two partners has been shaped by vario
 us experiences abroad such as studying in Switzerland and Belgium\, workin
 g in Rotterdam\, Copenhagen\, Brussels\, and a residency in Japan. Their g
 oal is therefore to remain as curious and receptive as possible and to ope
 n their field of investigation beyond architecture to landscape urbanism\,
  exhibition making\, installations\, furniture design\, research\, and tea
 ching. Truwant + Rodet + develops projects without cynicism or nostalgia\,
  using all available technologies and specialists while relying on the log
 ics of the territory and the landscape.\n\nIn 2017\, they received the Swi
 ss Art Award for their project "A Pavilion".  In 2020\, Truwant + Rodet +
  won the renovation for the Centre “Culturel Suisse” in Paris with the
  Parisian firm ASBR. In 2022\, they won the competition for the renovation
  and transformation of the Stadium of Bulle. In parallel\, from 2020 to 20
 22\, Dries Rodet has been teaching the studio "Proposals for Uncertain Con
 ditions" at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles 
 in Paris. And from September 2023\, they will teach together as visiting p
 rofessors at EPF Lausanne.\n 
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