24 rue des Maronites, 75020 PARIS, Phone +33(0)1 42 06 06 69, Fax: +33(0)1 42 08 27 86  

E.Mail : rochedsvsie@wanadoo.fr, Web : http://new-territories.com

 

INTRODUCING

“Making with…” is their way of describing their research into a critical experience of architecture through a mutation of contextual parameters. Scenarios of hybridization, grafting, cloning, morphing give rise to perpetual transformation of architecture which strives to break down the antinomies of object/subject or object/territory. Experimental and inventive, the architecture of R&Sie (n)… seeks to be profoundly critical ; an architecture which is articulated as multiple narrative apparatus and relationship strategy made of substances from each situation...

R&Sie(n) is an architectural office sey up in 1989 and lead by François Roche (1961, France), Stéphanie Lavaux (1966, France), based in Paris. The organic, oppositional architectural projects of their practice is concerned with the bond between building, context and human relations. Roche explains his concept of ‘’spoiled climate’’ chameleon architecture, which links and hybrids the human body to the body of architecture by a re-scenarization on the rules of all the natures, even artificial. They use speculations and fictions as process to dis-alienate the post-capitalism subjectivities, in the pursuit of Toni Negri. R&Sie(n) consider architectural identity as an unstable concept, defined through temporary forms in which the vegetal and biological become a dynamic element. R&Sie(n) are currently undertaking a critical experiment with new warping technologies to prompt architectural "scenarios" of cartographic distortion, substitution, and genetic territorial mutations. This kind of attitude and works is not fully understood in France where R&Sie(n) is mainly maintain on the side of the production. They adopt since several years a political status of immigrant in their own native culture.

R&Sie(n) held(s) several professorships with François Roche, in London at Bartlett School, in Vienna at TU, in Barcelona at ESARQ, in Paris at ESA, in Philadelphia at UPenn, and is teaching now in advanced studio at Columbia NY, USA. with speeches at MIT, Havard, AA School, UCLA, Sci-Arch...

Their projects have been exhibited at the Tate Modern (London 2006), Columbia University (New-York, 1999-2000), UCLA (Los Angeles, 1999-2000), ICA (London, 2001),   Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2004),  Pompidou Center (Paris, 2004),  MAM / Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris, 2005, 2006), MIT's Media Lab (Cambridge 2006), Orléans/ArchiLab International Architectural Conference (1999, 2001, 2003). R&Sie(n) were among the architects selected by France for the 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2002 (refused) Venice Architectural Biennale, and were also featured in the 2000, 2004 international selection. R&Sie(n) will be in the next cession, next September 2008,  in Italian-international pavilion. 

 

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‘’Faire avec…, témoigne chez François Roche, au sein de R&Sie(n), d’une volonté de développer une expérience critique à l’intérieur de l’architecture, qui opère une mutation de ses paramètres contextuels. Des scénarios d’hybridation, de greffe, de clonage, des morphings, donnent lieu à des transformations perpétuelles de l’architecture, où s’abolissent les polarités objet/sujet, objet/territoire. Expérimentale et inventive, l’architecture de R&Sie… se veut ainsi profondément critique: une architecture qui oppose souvent une non-forme qui semble faite de substances extraites de chaque situation…’’

Cela parle d’hyperlocalisme, d’hybridation, de génétique, de topologie  “ici et maintenant”. Cette implication dans l'urgence, dans la simultanéité des problématiques permet d’agir en temps réel, par substitution, extrusion, aspiration, boursouflement, cisaillement, pliage… suivant la nature de la situation préalable à leur intervention. Cette expérience territoriale se construit  sur des " scénarios " de distorsion cartographique, de mutations “topologico-génétiques”.

R&Sie(n) et François Roche ont enseigné, entre autres, en professeur invité à Londres-Bartlett School en 2000, à Vienne-TU en 2001, à Barcelone-ESARQ en 2003-04, à Paris-ESA en 2005, à Philadelphie-Upenn en 2006, et enseignent actuellement en studio de recherche à la Columbia, New-York.

Leur projets ont été expose a la Columbia University (New-York, 1999-2000), UCLA (Los Angeles, 1999-2000), ICA (Londres, 2001), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2004), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2003), MAM / Musée d'Art Moderne (Paris, 2005, 2006), Pavillon de l'Arsenal (Paris, 2006), TATE Modern (London 2006), à Orléans/ArchiLab  (1999, 2001, 2003). R&Sie(n) ont été sélectionnés pour être exposé au Pavillon Français de la Biennale d'Architecture de Venise en 1990, 1996, 2000 et 2002 (qu’ils ont refusé), et ont été sélectionnés en 2000 et 2004 dans la section internationale.

Paradoxalement, R&Sie(n) n’a pas le profil adéquat pour construire pas en France…

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François Roche – Born 25-02-1961 in Paris / Licensed Architect (DPLG), diploma 1987 Versailles, France, U.P.A. no. 3.

Stéphanie Lavaux – Born 11-06-1966 in Saint Denis, La Reunion / Leave the French National School of Fine Arts (ENSBA) in 1990, Paris, France.

 

EVOLUTION  from 1989-2005: BoyeRoche 89 / Roche* 90  / Roche&François 91  / Roche, François, Lewis, Huber, Roubaud, Perrin 92  / Roche, DSV & Sie 93-97  / R, DSV & Sie .P 98   /  R&Sie.D/B:L 99 -2001 / R&Sie... 2001-2004 / R&Sie(n)...2004-08 / just now ;

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Individual and group CV:

Extracts

Guest professor, UPenn & Columbia, US, 2006-2007,2008

Paris, Mam-Arc, "I've heard about" (c), July-October 2005

Architecture Non Standard, Pompidou Center, Paris, 2004

Orleans (France),Archilab, 1999, 2001, 2003

Venice Biennale 1991, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004 (invited and refused in 2002)

Guest professor, Architecture School (ESARQ), Barcelona (Spain), 2002/2004

Guest professor, Technical University, Vienna (Austria), 2002

Named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, "because" of Claude Parent, 2001

Guest professor, Bartlett School (unit 22), London, 2000/01

Professor at the French National School of Fine Arts (ENSBA), Paris, 1999-2003

Mutations @morphes, Orleans (France), Los Angeles, New York, 1998/2000

Exhibition Trans-Architecture 03, Berlin, Rotterdam, 1998

Villa Medicis Outside the Walls prize, 1994

Exhibition Action, 20 projects 1987-1993, French Institute of Architecture (IFA), Paris, 1993

Album de la Jeune Architecture prize, Paris, 1989

 

Exhibitions

Tel Aviv, Beyond Form, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Spring 2008

Melbourne, New Trend Architects, Australia, June 2007

Tokyo, New Trend Architects, Japan, Art Front Gallery, May 2007

Paris, Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, April-August 2007 ----refusal to take part / refus d'y participer

Firenze, ‘’Pan exhibition’’, Italy, SESV Gallery, September 2007 & Ljubljana, May 2007

Zurich, Nature Design, Switzerland, Museum fur Gestaltung, August 2007

Tokyo, Space for your Futur, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, November 2007

Stuttgart, Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM, Germany, Until August 2007

MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘’MI(pi)bar’’, February-April 2007

New-York, ‘’Pan exhibition’’, Taylor Gallery, fall 2006

New Trends Architects, 2006, Patras, Tokyo, Melbourne, Luxembourg

Beijing Biennal, ‘Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies’’, World Art Museum, Summer 2006

London, Tate Modern,” Terra Incognita”,  200 m², July, September 2006

Vitra, Open House, Hypnosis Chamber 1, Germany, July-October 2006

Singapore, Biennale, Hypnosis Chamber 2, August-October 2006

Patras-Tokyo, New-Trend architects, Japan, June-Fall 2006

Antwerp, “I’ve heard about, dystopia” De Singel, February-April 2006

Paris, Mam-Arc, "I've heard about" (c), July-October 05

Venice, Biennale of Architecture, Metamorphoses, Internationnal Pavillon, September 04

Tokyo, Mori Tower, New experiments from sixtees, December 04

Kanazawa (japan), Node 1, October 04

Rouen, Ecologie Fluide, April 04

Madrid, COAM, Corrupted Biotopes 2.0, March 04

Paris, Georges Pompidou Centre, Non Standard Architecture, December 2003/04

Barcelona, Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), Hypercatalunya, July 2003

Minneapolis (USA), Walker Art Centre, Out of the Ordinary, June-September 2003

Valencia (Spain), Atarazanas, Micro-Utopia / San Miguel de Los Reyes, A social project: Sociopolis, June-September 2003

Venice, Art Biennale, Utopia Station, Water Flux, June 2003

New York, Henry Urbach Architecture (HUA), Mosquito Bottleneck, June 2003

Geneva, Contemporary Image Centre (CCI), The Habitable Image, August 2002

Paris, Museum of Moderne Art (MAM), Hybrid Muscle, June-September 2002

London, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), In many ways the exhibition already happened, October 2001-January 2002

Rotterdam, Alliance française, Paysages Urbains, November 2001

Cascais (Portugal), Bienal da Utopia, July 2001

Castello (Spain), Otras Naturalezas Urbanas, July 2001

Karlsruhe (Germany), Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Morphing, June 2001

Orleans, Archilab 03, May-September 2001

Lisbon,  “Numero Festival”, Moving Mutations, December 2000

Venice, Biennale of Architecture, French and International Pavilions, June-September 2000

Los Angeles, L. Stern Gallery, An Oblique Lineage Toward Hypersurface, April 2000

New York, Columbia University, Mutations @morphes 3.0, February-March 2000

Paris, Purple Institute, E-space / génèse, December 10-13, 1999

Los Angeles, University of California (UCLA), Mutations @morphes 3.0, November-December 1999

Munich, Gallery FOE, Desire, September-November 1999

Rotterdam, Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Incision, April-June 1999

Orleans, Archilab 01, April-May 1999

Lille (France), “Espace Croisé”, Mutation @morphes 2.0, movies, February-April 1999

Orleans,  FRAC Centre (Funds for Contemporary Art), Mutations @morphes, October-December 1998

Paris, “La Table”. “Air de Paris” Gallery, Acqua Alta, September 1998

Berlin, “Aedes” Gallery, Rotterdam, NAI, Transarchitecture 03, 1998

Paris, 45 rue de Belleville, Paysage sud, March-April 1998.

Nimes (France), Fine Art School, Urbanismes, February 1998.

Trondheim (Norway), Art Centre, Shelter, December 1997

Montpellier (France), “Quartier du Petit Bard,” Sous le soleil exactement, November 1997

Bordeaux (France), “Arc en Rêve”, 36 modèles pour une maison, October 1996-January 1997

Orleans, FRAC Centre Collection, May-June 1997

Venice, Biennale of Architecture, curated by Frédéric Migayrou, 1996

Athens (Greece), Tekne & Metis, God’s Skyscrapers, May-July 1994

Los Angeles, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI ARC), International Architectural Exhibition and Sale, September 1993

Firminy (France), “Unité Le Corbusier”, Paysage n° 1, June 1993.

Paris, IFA, Action, Roche François, Lewis Huber, Roubaud Perrin, March-April 1993

Montreal, Design Center, Youville square, Illusion, September-October 1992

Venice, Biennale of Architecture, French Pavilion, curated by the IFA, Patrice Goulet, 1991

Paris, 40 architects under 40, IFA, 1991

Paris, “Maison de l’Architecture”, les Albums de la Jeune Architecture, 1989

 

Projects-Competitions-Studies (selection)

Orleans (France), 2006, Olzweg, 5000 m²

Prague (Czech), 2006, Words in Clouds, 50 000 m²

Heyri (DMZ in Korea), 2005, Hill, 2000 m²

Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2005, Shin “inn, 7000 m²

Cieszyn (Poland), 2005, Loophole, 300 m²

Nimes (France), 2004, Swimming good, 500 m²

Valencia (Espagne), 2004, Caja en Obras, 3000 m²

Trinidad, Mosquito Bottleneck, 130 m2, 2003

Valencia (Spain), Social Textile, 1,500 m2, 2003

Tokamachi (Japan), Asphalt Spot, 2,000 m2, 2002

Paris, Snake, 400 m2, 2002

Evolene (Switzerland), Water Flux, 1,000 m2, 2002

Chang May (Thailand), Hybrid Muscle, 120 m2, 2002

Bangkok (Thailand), Dustyrelief, 5,000 m2, 2002

New York, Y-brancheese, 200 m2, 2002

Evolene, Scrambled Flat, 1,000 m2, 2000-2001

La Defense (Paris), ENR-EDF, Unplug Tower, 12,000 m2, 2000-2001

Shinano (Japan), Overflow, 2,000 m2, 2000-2001

Toronto, Urban Park, 5 km2, 2000

Paris, Georges Pompidou Centre, Organic, 1,500 m2, 2000

Montpellier (France), Shearing, 160 m2, 1999-2000

Pouilly (France), Wire Frame, 300 m2, 1999

Paris, IGR Hospital, Kelp, 700 m2, 1999

Rotterdam, Incision, 250 km2, 1999

Paris, Belleville, RATP, Puffing Up, 3,000 m2, 1998

Venice, Aqua Alta 1.0, 4,000 m2, 1998

Soweto (South Africa), Folding, 2,000 m2, 1997

La Reunion, Fishing Stone, 2,000 m2, 1997

La Reunion, Contraction, 2,000 m2, 1996

La Reunion, Extrusion, 120 m2, 1996

Paris, French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA), Wall Carpet, 500 m2, 1995

Compiegne (France), Growing, 250 m2, 1994

Sarcelles (France), Le temps de vivre, 1,500 m2, 1994

Paris, Deligny, Mimesis, 7,000 m2, 1994

Paris, Il était une fois, 10,000 m2, 1993

San Francisco (USA), Don’t Forget, 5 km, 1993

Roissy (France), In Situ, 2,500 m2, 1992

Montreal, Youville square, Illusion, 20,000 m2, 1992

Berlin, Recycling, 400,000 m2, 1992

Tourcoing (France), Wrapping, 6,000 m2, 1991

Bois d’Arcy (France), Stone Wash, 1,000 m2, 1991

Trebeurden (France), Climates & Seasons, 8,000 m2, 1991

Paris, Shadow & Light, 2,000 m2, 1990

 

Monographies

-  L’ombre du Caméléon, Trash Mimesis, 1994, 130 pages, Publisher IFA/Karedas (France)

-  Mutations @morphes, 1998, 60 pages, Publisher HYX (France)

-  Teen Years After, 2003, textes, 150 pages, Publisher Les Architectures Hérétiques (France)

-  Spoiled Climate, 2004, 160 pages, Publisher Birkhauser (Germany)

-  Corrupted Biotopes, 2004, 170 pages, Publisher Damdi (Korea)

-  « I’ve heard about », 2005, 100 pages, Publisher Paris Musée / MAM, Paris (France)

-  Fiction Scripts, 2006, 250 pages, Publisher Beijing Office / united Asia, (China)

 

Installations

London, Tate Modern,” Terra Incognita”,  July, September 2006

Paris, « I’ve heard about », MAM/ARC, July-October 2005

Houston (USA)/Malmoe (Sweden), NASA, Future Homes, Ice Inflatable, 2003

Venice, Biennale of Architecture, Aqua Alta 2.0, 2000

Paris, Propos Mobiles, itineraries in the10th arrondissement, Furtive, 1998

Vienne (France), la Baïse, Sedimentation, 2,500 m2, 1996

Grenoble, “Le Magasin”, Floating Carpet, April-September 1996

New York, P.S.1, Contemporary Art Centre, Light Wave, November-December 1994

Paris, MAM, “L’hiver de l’amour”, Stairs, 1994

Compiegne (France), Transfer, 5 m2, 1993

Paris, IFA, Ice Fish, summer 1989

 

Lectures and Teaching Experiments

Amsterdam, ‘’Paris Lounge’’, plateform 21, 24 March 2007

Paris, Rice School + Columbia, Quai Malaquais 20 March 2007

USA, MIT, ‘’Practice as research’’, 27 February 2007

Mexico, Azul Rey, ‘’architecture colors life’’, 12-13 February 2007

USA, Columbia, « Pink Dystopia », 4 Octobre 2006 & « Pan », 23 Octobre 2006

New York, Columbia, « Pink Dystopia », October 4th, 2006 & « Pan », October 23th, 2006

Suisse, Bienne, Architecture Association, May 23rd, 2006

Michigan, Architectural School, April 17th , 2006

New-York, Pratt School, April 18th , 2006

Columbus, Ohio, Architectural School, April 5th, 2006

Lyon, Le Moniteur, April 3rd, 2006

London, AA School, March 14th, 2006

Antwerpen, De Singel, February 9th, 2006

Moscow, Architectural School, January 30th , 2006

Philadelphia, UPenn, with Berokh Khosnhevis, January 25th, 2006

Fribourg, Friart, "From Art to...", May 13, 2005

Cambridge, Harvard, Université d’Architecture, “Loophole”, April 15, 2005

Los Angeles, Sci Arc, “R&Sie(n, last news”, March 14, 2005

Philadelphia, Penn University, “R&Sie(n, last news”, March 16, 2005

Montreal, Mac Gill University, “R&Sie(n)last news”, March 17, 2005

Lichenstein, University Of Architecture, November 7,  2004

Liege, Ecole d'Architecture, October 22, 2004

Toronto, "Sci-Fi & Mass culture Crisis", Faculty of Architecture, September 27, 2004

Boston, MIT, "non standard praxis", September 24, 2004

Cambridge, Harvard, "Sci-Fi & Mass culture Crisis", September 23, 2004

New-York, Columbia, "Sci-Fi & Mass culture Crisis", September 22, 2004

Mexico, Territoirios, Arquine Event, March 19, 2004

Madrid, Escuela de Architectura, March 8, 2004

Madrid, FUCOAM, Corrupted Biotopes,  March 31, 2004

Bruxelles, la Cambre, March 12,  2004

Worklaw, Poland, Museum of Architecture, March 5, 2004

Strasbourg, Ecole d’Architecture, February 20, 2004

Tenerife, COAC, January 24, 2004

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Architecture non Standart, Decembre 10, 2003

Valencia, Espagne, Sociopolis, San Miguel Los Reyes, June 9, 2003

Paris, Le Louvre Museum, Museum in Bangkok, April 4, 2003

Miami (USA), Art Basel Event, The future of the museum, December 19, 2002

Bregenz (Austria), Art Museum, November 16, 2002

Oslo (Norway), Architecture School, November 15, 2002

Porto (Portugal), Mutation, October 30, 2002

Ljubljana (Slovenia), Ultraskin, October 22, 2002

Geneva, Image Habitable, October 14, 2002

Vitoria (Spain), Arquitectura Ficcion, May 23, 2002

Madrid, “Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo” (ARCO), Museum, February 14, 2002

Vienna (Austria), TU, December 2001

Gothenburg (Sweden), Chalmer Institute of Technology, November 2001

Rotterdam, Berlage Institute, Paysages Hybrides, November 2001

Stockholm, Stockholm at Large, Farbfabriken, October 2001

Castello, Contemporary Art Centre (EACC), Fishbirdzoo, September 2001

Venice, Architecture School, June 2001

Graz (Austria), Architecture School TUG, June 2001

Linz (Austria), University of Art and Industrial Design, June 2001

Barcelona, Metapolis, June 2001

Karslruhe, ZKM, June 2001

Bogota (Colombia), Luis Arango Library, May 2001

London, Bartlett School, March 2001

Stockholm, Farbfabriken, February 2001

Barcelona, ETSAB, January 15, 2001

Marne-la-Vallee (France), La Ferme du Buisson, October 25, 2000

Brussels, Fondation Horta, October 24, 2000

Montpellier, Architecture School, October 11, 2000

Versailles, Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, July 2000

Zagreb (Croatia), Architecture School, June 22, 2000

New York, Columbia University, April 19, 2000

Tourcoing, Le Fresnoy– National Centre of Contemporary Arts, March 13, 2000

London, Bartlett School, December 13, 1999

Los Angeles, UCLA, University of California, November 1999

Paris, IFA, Anymore Context, June 24, 1999

Rotterdam, NAI, Genetic Field, May 1999

Paris, Web Bar, April 21, 1999

Nantes (France), Architecture School, Mutations @morphes, April 7, 1999

Los Angeles, University of Southern California (USC), lecture, November 18, 1998

New York, Columbia University, lecture, November 9, 1998

Clermont-Ferrand (France), Architecture School, 20 November 1998

Nancy (France), Architecture School, November 21, 1998.

Rouen (France), workshop at the Architecture School, Territoire Plié, May 1998.

Paris, Decorative Arts School, February 1998. 

Trondheim, (Norway), Architecture School, December 1997.

Nimes, workshop at the Fine Arts School, exhibition, November-December 1997.

Paris, “Pavillon de l’Arsenal”, lecture, Quelques Nouvelles du Front, May 20, 1997

London, ICA, Talks, May 15 , 1997.

Barcelona, University of Catalunya, La Arquitectura de los nuevos entornos, May 1997.

Houston, College of Architecture, lectures and workshop, February 1996.

Stockholm, Architecture School, lecture and teaching session, September 1996.

Grenoble, Art School, 1995.

Rennes (France), Architecture School, 1995.

Barcelona, Architecture School, April 1995.

Marseille (France), Architecture School, 1993.

Versailles, Architecture School, 1993.

Montpellier, Architecture School, 1993.

Toulon (France), Fine Arts School, 1993.

Paris, Architecture School (ESA), 1991 and 1992.

 

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