0:24 Introduction by Aziza Chaouni
2:47 Manuelle Gautrand presentation
1:07:08 Q & A
On January 29, 2013, the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto welcomed French architect Manuelle Gautrand to speak as part of the Daniels Faculty Public Lecture series.
Manuelle Gautrand obtained her graduate diploma in Architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier in 1985. Manuelle worked for 6 years in different architecture studios in Paris, and founded her office, Manuelle Gautrand Architecture in 1991. Manuelle lectured at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture and the Paris-Val-de-Seine School of Architecture between 2000 and 2003. She currently teaches in architectural workshops held throughout Europe and is a consultant to, among others, the education authority in Grenoble and the Mission interministérielle pour la qualité des constructions publiques. In 2005, Gautrand was elected as a statutory member of the French Architecture Academy.
Manuelle Gautrand’s poetic architecture embraces an endless variety of forms and colors, using the most contemporary methods of planning in a variety of areas ranging from cultural facilities to residential, commercial and office buildings.
To “Re-enchant the City” and thus to bring emotion, to reinvent, to renew, to innovate, and to propose the unexpected answers, to be bold and plural are the founding principles of the architecture of Manuelle Gautrand. All her projects express a specific relationship to the site: a desire to revive and enchant it. She has a deep commitment to working on the projects entrusted to the firm, to make them even more efficient, more malleable and more unexpected.
Among the firm’s recently completed projects are the “Origami” office building on Friedland Avenue in Paris; La Gaité Lyrique, an old Parisian theater transformed into a centre for contemporary and digital arts and music; The Lille Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art; and La Cité des Affaires in Saint-Etienne, an administrative and office building.
For more information about the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, visit us at http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca
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