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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by S. Bru
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DESCRIPTION:Stéphanie Bru\n08:45 – 09:30 – S. Bru\nPartner at BRUTHER
 \, France\n\nFacing the future\nNever enough pleasure\n\nArchitecture play
 s a funny game with time.\nEvery project is by definition a projection\, a
  drawn anticipation of the future state of a building\, and by extension o
 f the future of a place. But once the building is completed\, would it be 
 permissible to show a certain irony? Would the built work be only the "pas
 t of a project"? Since any construction freezes the matter and stops\, a p
 riori\, its evolution.\nThe first challenge of architecture is to arrive o
 n time. To make sure that once the building is delivered\, it is immediate
 ly understandable\, appropriable\, that it meets the expectations of its s
 ponsors\, and more broadly the needs of its society and its time. But betw
 een the moment when things have been designed\, planned\, and when they ar
 e built\, there will inevitably be inflections. The whole art of architect
 ure is not to lose relevance\, even in the interstices left vacant. It is 
 to define spaces and uses precisely enough\, while leaving a margin of fle
 xibility for future adaptations. In short\, the architect is not summoned 
 to draw the future\, but to make its advent possible. To be an architect o
 f his time\, is already to leave a place for the next times\, and even to 
 admit that these will have what to amend\, even to disturb our original dr
 awings.\nIt is in this overcoming of its own design - as well as its own p
 urpose - that architecture finds its greatest relevance. The post-Covid-19
  world will impose\, for sure\, new standards. The constraints of distanci
 ng and isolation represent what all architectural modernity has struggled 
 against. But we will have to deal with new paradoxical injunctions\, solve
  almost surreal paradoxes. How can we imagine "partitioned open spaces"\, 
 for example? The hygienism of a century ago was built on the imperative of
  a more generous circulation of air and light\, factors which today reappe
 ar as a threat. But ventilation and luminosity will always remain the prim
 ary materials of architecture. And today's architects must not forget that
  it is above all the bringing together (of beings\, words\, spaces) that c
 ontinues to make society. In this\, the first project of architecture is t
 o know how to reinvent new logics for future times. If we can no longer re
 ly on today's mechanics that have shown some failures\, we must know how t
 o dismantle the engine\, find other connections to make it start again. No
  doubt in a different direction\, but always pointing to the horizon of to
 morrow.\n\n\nShort bio:\nStéphanie Bru studied at the Paris-Belleville Sc
 hool of Architecture After a research fellowship on the subject of Infra-A
 rchitecture in Tokyo\, she founded the Bruther agency in Paris with Alexan
 dre Theriot in 2008. Bruther works in the fields of architecture\, researc
 h\, education\, urban planning and landscape. Bruther's aim is to "underst
 and and accept conceptual and constructive needs but also to be able to tu
 rn back and unexpectedly encounter new areas of experimentation and resear
 ch.\nTheir projects suggest a delicate balance between strategy and form\,
  rigour and freedom\, specific and generic\, immediacy and evolvability. L
 ooking at the program in its future\, their projects stand for open infras
 tructures that adapt to an abundance of contextual possibilities and a gre
 at malleability of uses.\nPrior to receiving the Swiss Architecture Prize 
 2020\, Bruther was awarded the Equerre d'argent three times\; in 2020 for 
 the student residence and reversible car park in Palaiseau\, in 2018 for t
 he residence for researchers at the Cité universitaire in Paris) and in 2
 016 for the new generation research centre in Caen.\nIn 2015\, the Centre 
 Culturel et Sportif Saint-Blaise in Paris was nominated for the Mies van d
 er Rohe Award.\nBRUTHER's work is the subject of international conferences
  and several publications. In 2019\, the monograph El Croquis on their jou
 rney is published.\nStéphanie Bru have been guest professors at the Écol
 e Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne\, in 2018.
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