Fougeron Architecture /anglais: Opposition / Composition - Tapa blanda

Fougeron Architecture is an award-winning architecture firm based in San Francisco. This first monographon the woman-led firm examines the broad range of the practice, including residential, institutional, and mixed-use projects. The book features fourteen projects, illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings, as well as a foreword by Hitoshi Abe.

Anne Fougeron received her Master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. Following a summer of study at ILAUD in Urbino, Italy, she spent three years in the office of Dan Solomon and Associates working on mixed-use housing developments and urban planning studies and a year in San Jose's Redevelopment Agency coordinating and supervising the redevelopment effort for the city's downtown area. In 1986 she opened her own office in San Francisco. Since then, she has built up her practice with projects for institutional and private clients, much of it in the field of residential design. Fougeron has steered the work of her firm on a modernist course, emphasizing clarity of structural expression, the use of natural light to mold space, and the selection of materials for the tactile and visual qualities that will bring tonal balance to the completed work. Anne's interest in merging the design and production processes has led her to create crossdisciplinary teams with local craftsmen for each project. For example, her fifteen-year association with Dennis Luedeman has resulted in the integration of steel detailing and structure in all her project. They work collaboratively now on most of the office's projects. Her association with the structural team of Endres-Ware is also essential to the process: from conception to construction they collaborate to make the most interesting visually dynamic and yet seismically sound structures. Within her office, staff work on projects from beginning to end allowing them to learn both how to design conceptually how to detail buildings and how to have them built.