September, 2020 - Plan Común is part of the project ‘Chantiers Partagés’ led by Société du Grans Paris and implemented by the artistic and cultural direction of Grand Paris Express. The first phase was a workshop entitled ‘Topographie(s) Artificielle(s)’ held at Paris La Villette School of Architecture (ENSAPLV) and led by Edouard Ropars and Plan Común in collaboration with Ateliers Médicis, whose aim is to design an artificial topography next to the building site of Clichy-sous-Bois’ future train station.
The University of Newcastle - Radical Work
September, 2020 - Plan Común is invited to participate as Visiting Architects and Experts Program at The University of Newcastle, Australia. Our participation during the semester includes a series of activities including a symposium, lectures, reviews and a critical article on radical domesticities.
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HORIZONTE : Conference at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
July, 2020 - Plan Común was invited by Horizonte to give a lecture at Bauhaus-Weimar University. Entitled ‘Common Places’, introduced the collaborative research on collective spaces led by our practice between 2012-2018.
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Go to Horizonte
CCA - My Invisible Friend (New date)
July, 2020 - Our lecture in the context of ‘My Invisible Friend’ series curated by Lev Bratishenko at Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) will be published on Thursday, 2 July. On 3 July, a live Q&A on CCA’s Instagram will be hosted (1:00pm Montréal time / 7:00pm Central European Time). Questions for the Q&A may be submitted to public@cca.qc.ca or left as comments on YouTube.
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Watch the conference
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THE STATE OF ART OF ARCHITECTURE - Video Presentation
June, 2020 - Our presentation in the context of ‘The State of Art of Architecture’ exhibition curated by Joseph Grima at Triennale Milano is now available. It includes a short discussion with Migrant Journal (Michaela Büsse), REAL (Jack Self) and OASI (Pietro Ferrario).
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FADU UBA - Taller Soler
May, 2020 - Felipe De Ferrari was invited by Ignacio Montaldo (founder of Moarqs) to give a conference in the context of ‘Taller Soler’ at FADU UBA, Argentina.
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Go to the video of the conference
UCLA - Drawing things together
May, 2020 - Kim Courrèges and Felipe De Ferrari introduced the work by Plan Común in the context of ‘Drawing things together’ seminar led by Cristóbal Amunátegui at UCLA.
'ZAC de Moulon – Lot NE31'
April, 2020 - We are shortlisted along with Seyler & Lucan -and a team including EVP, VPEAS, Atelier Volga and WOR Ingénierie- for a competition organized by EPA Paris-Saclay to design two collective housing buildings in one of the plots of ‘ZAC de Moulon’, Paris-Saclay, France.
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Go to EPA Paris-Saclay
Ecovillage Hannover competition
March, 2020 - We are shortlisted along with ISSS -led by Ingrid Sabatier and Stephan Schwarz- for ‘Ecovillage Hannover’ competition. The goal is to design a whole neighbourhood of 500 apartments / houses and collective facilities in the outskirts of Hannover, Germany.
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Go to Ecovillage Hannover
CCA - My Invisible Friend
Plan Común has been invited to participate in ‘My Invisible Friend’ series of lectures held at Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Curated by Lev Bratishenko, ‘My Invisible Friend’ invites authors to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible. Each speaker completes three tasks:
1: Tell the story of a decisive encounter with a figure from outside architecture and of how it created a new kind of practice.
2: Pick any dead or fictional non-architect to collaborate with, and explain why.
3: Pick another contemporary architect and a collaborator to inflict upon them, and explain why.
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Go to Canadian Centre for Architecture
TRIENNALE MILANO / The State of Art of Architecture
Plan Común has been invited to participate in ‘The State of Art of Architecture Milano’ exhibition held at Triennale Milano until March 29th, 2020. The name refers to a conference held in 1977 at the Graham Foundation that was curated by Stanley Tigerman, who has been an important instigator and educator, as well as architect, on the Chicago scene since the 1970s. The first edition of this exhibition, curated by both Sarah Herda and Joseph Grima was held in the context of Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015.
From the curator: The State of the Art of Architecture Milano is intended to be an invitation to reflect on the creation of new forms of contemporary architectural thought, through the involvement of 38 innovative and emergent architecture studios and researchers. The exhibition is intended to be an invitation to reflect on the creation of new forms of contemporary architectural thought, focusing on future generations in order to understand current lines of development and new directions in design.
Curated by: Joseph Grima
Projects by: (ab)Normal; Adjustments Agency; APPARATA; Bollería Industrial; Center for Spatial Technologies; DOMA; feminist architecture collaborative; Fosbury Architecture; Fru*Fru; GAFPA; Heat Island; Ibiye Camp; KOSMOS; Mae-Ling Lokko; Marjan van Aubel; Mathieu Bujnowskyj, Titouan Chapouly (Hutte.xyz); MBL Architectes; Michaela Büsse; MILLIØNS; Nashin Mahtani; NM3; OASI; Olivia Page; OMMX; Parasite 2.0; Pedro Pitarch; Plan Comun; PLSTCT; REAL; Rebediani Scaccabarozzi Paesaggisti; Romina Grillo Liviu Vasiu; Something Fantastic; Studio GISTO; Studio Ossidiana; Supervoid; The Decorators; Traumnovelle; Trees.
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MOB Projects - Domestic Essays / Ensaios Domésticos
11.10 _ 19h00
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Rua de São Lázaro 7
Lisboa - Portugal
Plan Común will participate in ‘Domestic Essays’, exhibition of a furniture collection by MOB Projects in the context of Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Our contribution is ‘Bisagra’ a polymorphic device for domestic and work environments, a galvanized steel structure composed by 5 frames of 50x190x10cm.
Other participants include Bast (FR), Maio Architect (ES), Fala Atelier (PT), Sami Arquitectos (PT), Fernanda Fragateiro (PT), Boris Gusic + Lucio Crignola (CH), Aprdelesp (MX), Benjamin Ossa (CL), Martinez Barat Lafore (FR), Javier Toro Blum (CL), Alejandra Prieto (CL), Ivan Navarro + Courtney Smith (US/CL), Nicolás Aracena (CL)
Excerpt by the curators: “In an attempt to make architecture and art a shareable and comprehensible language, the scale of the furniture appears as a common ground of research, criticism and experimentation for new practices, which through a tactile and close scale, generate a series of questions around the interior space and the relation of the objects with the common world and the domestic user. Through rationality we can reach a contemporary interpretation of the world and build a theory of society, being this project a tool for reaching in a domestic way those objectives, exploring the closest scale between its creators and people.”
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Campo Comum - Conference Program 2020-2022
Felipe De Ferrari will co-direct the Conference Program by Lisbon Architecture Triennale and Garagem Sul | Exposições de Arquitetura, do Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), along with Diana Menino, for the next 3 years (2020-2022). The proposal entitled 'Campo Comum' was selected among 26 applications arriving from 11 different countries by a jury composed of José Mateus, Manuel Henriques, Madalena Reis, André Tavares and Irina Davidovici.
Excerpt : “Architecture must be understood as a strategic attitude regarding space and resources. Common Field aims to discuss architecture in its most literal meaning: a collective and strategic knowledge that is and could be applied by everyone, in any community, environment or culture, through a series of mechanisms, devices, structures and forms. To build up a Common Field requires to assess the idea of common sense, a critical concept in the present context of global neoliberalisation and political decay. Hence, we claim for a a critical and optimistic attitude towards physical and cultural contexts, policies, briefs and clients, architecture can appropriate reality, in radical and unexpected ways from research to construction —, making visible its potential and contradictions, developing projects that enable emancipatory ideas, thus building as a common field.”
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'Garage Citroen' Competition
We are shortlisted along with Bast -and a team including EVP, Oxalis, Lab ingénierie, Mobius and Vpeas- for the transformation of ‘Garage Citroen’ into an student housing- including 60 apartments, 4000 m² of workshops and 1000 m² of commercial stores-. The competition is organized by RIVP.
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'St. Vincent de Paul' Competition
We are shortlisted along with Kuehn Malvezzi, Nicolas Dorval Bory and a strong team -including Vogt, Bollinger Grohmann, Inex, Vpeas and Lab Ingenierie- for a competition organized by RIVP to introduce 185 apartments and workshops in one of the plots of St. Vincent de Paul health complex in Paris, France.
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Go to Les Grand Voisins
Zagreb School of Architecture
Felipe De Ferrari was invited to give a lecture and to participate in a special review at Zagreb School of Architecture.
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'Logics of innovation and change'
Felipe De Ferrari was invited to participate in the congress entitled ‘Logics of innovation and change’ held at Barcelona Building Construmat 2019. Curated by Ricardo Devesa, the congress included presentations by a diverse set of authors such as Emilio Santiago Muiño, Ingrid Guardiola, Harquitectes, Studio Muoto, Ibai Rigby, Flexo Arquitectura and Lateral Office among others.
For more information :
Go to Construmat website
Final Review at ETH MAS Urban Design
Kim Courrèges was invited to participate in the final review of ‘Inclusive Urbanism: Marseille’ directed by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Something Fantastic in the MAS Urban Design (Chair of Marc Angélil) at ETH Zürich. Other guests included Anne Lacaton (Lacaton & Vassal), Nicolas Memain and Sascha Delz.
For more information:
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BAP! - Biennale d'architecture et paysage
Plan Comun is invited by Kuehn Malvezzi to participate in the first edition of BAP! Biennale d’architecture et de paysage, organized by Région Île-de-France in Versailles. Curated by French architect and urbanist Djamel Klouche, ‘Augures’ is understood as a laboratory for new architectural practices and will be held at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, from May 3rd to July 13th.
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Common Places at Kolektiv Gallery
44 strategies for collective spaces are currently exhibited at Kolektiv Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia (April 1st-15th). The display is a plinth of 7.5m x 1m x 0.38m made by siporex concrete blocks donated by Y-tong.
Contributions by: Felipe De Ferrari (CL), Kim Courreges (FR), Thomas Batzenschlager (FR), Diego Grass (CL), Marcelo Cox (CL), Jose Lemaitre (CL), Oliver Burch (CH), Costanza Zeni (IT), Jules Salmon (FR), Kotaro Shimada (JP), Pedro Correa (CL), Cristian Valenzuela (CL), Pedro Hoffmann (CL), Luca Magagni (IT), Osvaldo Larraín (CL), Eduardo Corales (CL), Ciro Miguel (BR), Bruna Canepa (BR), Hamed Khosravi (Behemoth, IR), Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu (Umwelt, CL), Cruz García & Nathalie Frankowski (Wai Think Tank, CR / FR), Miles Gertler (CA), Erica Chladová and Robert van der Pol (Liminal Office, NL), Javiera Jadue & Paula Livingstone (CL), Tomás Tironi & Christian Bartlau (CL), Cristóbal Amunátegui & Alejandro Valdés (CL), Benjamin Gallegos Gabilondo (CL), Grupo Toma (CL), Fosbury Architecture (IT), Sebastian Paredes (CL), Felipe Grallert (CL).
In the context of the exhibition Kim Courrèges & Felipe De Ferrari did a lecture entitled ‘The Practice as a Project’, introducing the last 6 years of work at Plan Común.