Jean-Philippe VASSAL
OSM Visiting Professor
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566.
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Jean-Philippe Vassal is a French architect and co-founder of Lacaton & Vassal (est. 1987), celebrated for humane, resource-conscious design and the ethos “never demolish.” Trained in Bordeaux, he worked as an architect and urban planner in Niger, shaping his climate-responsive, economy-of-means approach. With Anne Lacaton, he has delivered landmark projects such as the Grand Parc Bordeaux housing transformation (with Frédéric Druot), the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, FRAC Nord–Pas de Calais in Dunkirk, the Latapie House in Floirac, and the Tour Bois-le-Prêtre renovation. Lacaton & Vassal received the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2019 EU Mies Award; Vassal continues to teach and lecture internationally, advocating generosity of space, reuse, and social value in architecture.