Graeme Mann & Patricia Capua Mann (Collection Archigraphy La(c)Maniques) (Collection Archigraphy Lémaniques) - Tapa dura

Acerca de los autores

Graeme Mann and Patricia Capua Mann have been active since 1991 with their own architecture firm in Lausanne.

Graeme Mann und Patricia Capua Mann sind seit 1991 aktiv mit einem eigenen Architekturbüro in Lausanne.

De la contraportada

A pursuit in continuity. Graeme Mann and Patricia Capua Mann belong to those architects who share a same interest for

teaching and practice, two activities that mutually enhance each other. They have taught at the EPFL in workshops with

Mangeat, Chipperfield, Fretton, Campo Baeza, Zenghelis and were visiting Professors in 2006 - 2007.

In their architecture, despite the fact that every project has its own characteristics and responds to a precise context, one

can note a continuous and progressive research around the same themes: the use of strict geometrical principles, a creation

of spatial movement enhanced by appropriate structural study, a sensitive assembly of materials and great attention

towards the surrounding environment.

Several of their projects therefore have a similarity, although expressing different features and characteristics: a new and

original position in the eclectic ambiance which characterises the contemporary architectural scene and is the strength of

significant buildings such as the sports hall in Villaz-St-Pierre and the college in Gland.