On September 23, Storefront for Art and Architecture will launch the New York Architecture Book Fair at Great Hall ofthe Cooper Union with a series of events. Among them, BOOK-Now presents a selection of recent publication. Paris Haussmann exhibition catalogue is part of this initiative.

From 20 to 24 September, LAN presents at AGORA, Bordeaux's architectural, urban planning and design biennale the models of Bègles and Lormont. Have a look at the installation images.

The construction site of the Fire and Rescue Center in Rennes will start in mid-October on the banks of the Vilaine River in Rennes. Facing the Baud plain, the new fire and rescure center is a prototype, an harbinger of the future constructions and usages.

Make New History, the theme of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 examines the underpinnings of the resurgence of historical interest. It is also the title of the catalogue that accompanies this second edition of the biennial and features all the manifestations including the exhibition Paris Haussmann.

79 housing units in Bègles has been short-listed for the BigMat’17 International Architecture Award. Help LAN win the Public Choice Award: you have until 24 October 2017 to cast your vote.

Recently winner of the competition launched by ICADE for the construction of a 28,000 m² office building located in the heart of Millennium Park in Aubervilliers, LAN is currently working on preliminary design studies.

Team is growing up. Welcome to our new architects coming from all over Europe.

Earthmoving works have started in Strasbourg for the new Maillon Theatre - European Stage, which has just appointed its new artistic director, Barbara Engelhardt.

LAN is participating in the National Architecture Days organized by the Ministry of Culture on 13, 14 and 15 October. Guided tours of the Polaris construction site in Nantes are available on registration.

Completed this summer, the student residence in Saclay welcomes students since the beginning of September. To guide them, an exterior and interior signage has been imagined and developed by the creative studio Undo Redo.

Laying of the first stone of the Saint-Urbain’s block in Strasbourg is announced for September, 28th. The project, scheduled for 2019, will be hosting housing, retail and an hotel.

The models of Bègles and Lormont, realized in 2016 for the Venice Architecture Biennale, will be exhibited in September in Bordeaux as part of Agora, biennial of architecture, design, urban planning.

LAN is currently working on models research for the project Amédée Saint-Germain, a vast Operation of National Interest in urban planning in Bordeaux scheduled for 2020.

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem has nominated Umberto Napoliano keynote speaker for conference as part of the end of year events that will take place between July 12th – 14th

Prototypes of micro-perforated corten steel panels that will cover the main façades of the minimum-security prison have recently been presented. Among their main functions: to confer a strong and unitary identity, and to complete sun protection and visual filter function.

Umberto Napolitano will give a lecture on June 14th at 5.30pm at the Triennale di Milano as part of the Milano Arch Week, a week full of events dedicated to architecture with the artistic direction of Stefano Boeri.

LAN is part of the jury panel for the European Copper Award in Architecture Awards 18. In 2015, LAN's Euravenir tower in Lille was given an honorable mention. Images.

​Book selection by parisian bookstore VOLUME that focuses, in connection with current projects of LAN,​​​ on wood material: its structure, properties, potential. Have a look.

As part of the Archicontemporaine Prize 2017, "Paris XVII - 40 housing units" figures among the 24 projects presented at the DRAC in Toulouse from June 2 to 14, during the Architecture Month in Occitanie. The itinerant exhibition will take place at the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris at the end of 2017.

Work in progress in Saclay. Welcoming urban and student life, the open and public spaces of the student residence were designed to become a place for exchanges, while preserving the intimacy of each habitat. Delivery at the end of July.

In episode #14 of GSAPP Columbia Podcast: Dean Amale Andraos in conversation with Umberto Napolitano. They discuss, amongst others, his interpretation of "density" or the role of the work space in the creative process.

RIBA will host between 18th April and 29th May, the exhibition Social Housing that will features, among others, our project of 79 housing units in Bègles.

In Nantes, LAN is working on a 1.5 hectare parcel facing the Loire hat will be hosting new buildings including a 18-storey panoramic tower. Photographer Cyrille Weiner has visited the construction site at the beginning of March.

Umberto Napolitano's students from Columbia University in New York have travelled to Paris for site visits as part of their graduation project. The final review is scheduled at the beginning of May.

The first stone of the eco-neighborhood Baud Chardonnet in Rennes has been laid on February 6. The project, scheduled for spring 2018, will be hosting 124 housing units, shops and a chapel.

The construction of the minimum-security prison in Nanterre began in November 2016 and will last 16 months.

Virtual visit in augmented reality of the Grand Palais by Sylvie Hubac, President of the RMN-GP, thanks to the modeling realized by François Châtillon, Chief architect of the Historic Monuments.

The project of 1078 students housing units in Saclay, near Paris, is scheduled for September 2017. Photographer Julien Lanoo has documented the project at the end of January.

Watch the video of the conference given on March, 8th by curators Umberto Napolitano and Franck Boutté

The preparatory meeting for the construction site of the future Maillon theater in Strabsourg will take place at the end of March.

Umberto Napolitano will give a talk in Vienna on March 11 at the TURN ON architecture festival.

Prefect of the Seine under the Second Empire, Georges Eugène Haussmann profoundly transformed the city of Paris between 1852 and 1869 at the request of Napoleon III.

The morphology of road networks is an indispensable analy-tical tool for defining urban forms.

Fully documented and illustrated, the exhibition catalogue was conceived as a retro-atlas of Haussmann’s territory.

Haussmann’s concept of the city covers the entire built environment, from redrawn streets and urban fixtures to building façades, down to the individual stylistic elements and ornamental components.

Designed from the outset to host diverse usages and populations, the Haussmann investment property also demonstrated considerable aptitude in terms of changing its configurations and usages, a capacity for transformation and reversibility.

The blocks can be considered as an assembly of units: a block can become a single building, or be composed of independent units, following a process that is sometimes reversible.

European cities are characterized by the strong correlation between the form of the individual block, which constitutes the basic component of the urban fabric, and the form of the city.

Although the building is the true icon of Haussmann’s urban production, the type commonly known as “investment property” (or “rental property”) was already present in the 18th century.

As part of the upcoming exhibition at Pavillon de l’Arsenal, photographer Cyrille Weiner produced the series “Paris Haussmann, Variations de l’identité”. LAN invites you to discover his personal work and the way he captures the world around him.

The project pays homage to Paris, to the architecture of the 19th century, and to the Haussmann building.

The Pavillon de l'Arsenal which will host the upcoming Paris Haussmann exhibition, is the Paris Center for Information, Documentation and Exhibition of Urbanism and Architecture.

The project of the City-Hall of Saint-Jacques de la Lande has been awarded by the Brittany Architecture Award.

Umberto Napolitano will begin teaching in the university of GSAPP Columbia of New-York, in January 2017.

Mies team met LAN and will present the video interview in Paris, at the Capela on the 22nd of November.

Standing with Liza Fior (London), Aristide Antonas (Athens), et Pier Vittorio Aureli (Dogma - Brussells), LAN is invited to contribute to the symposium Inhabiting Artefacts by the University of Syracuse, in London on the 31st of October.

Following the competition of the Grand-Palais won in 2014, the schematic development began this Automn. We will keep you posted about the progressing of this monumental project.

The « Forum des projets urbains » is an information platform about the main urban settlement operations at the French and European scales. The political and technical leaders as well as the settlement actors exchange and participate to the presentation of major urban projects. LAN will have the opportunity to present the urban project of the Saint-Urbain plot in Strasbourg.

The Art School of Beauvaisis and the CAUE de l'Oise organize the cycle of conferences "Seconde main, Seconde peau". As part of it, LAN will give a lecture on the 9th of November in the CAUE de l'OIse : "La peau dans le projet architectural », with the presentation of the project of Bure, the archives centre of EDF.

Since the 6th of October, Umberto Napolitano is a member of the Académie d'Architecture, you can discover his speech here.

The project of the student residences in Gif-sur-Yvette was awarded by fimbACTE. It won the "Trophée Or du Cadre de Vie".

The 15th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice nears the end. The dismantling is planned for the first week of December. One month left to enjoyf it !

The 81 issue of the Archistorm magazine integrates an article about the participation of LAN to the 15th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

For the end of this year, LAN shares with you a selection of books. They are commented and presented by Samuel Hoppe, the director of the library VOLUME in Paris. 7 books hold our attention, in regards with their link to the actuality of the studio as well as for their rich content.

We are glad to announce 79 collective housings in Bègles won the AR Housing Awards. The Jury, composed of Sasa Radulovic, Cany Ash and Je Ahn appreciated “the riposte to the usual contemporary style of housing which is often ‘rigid, prescribed and out-of-the-box”.

On the 6th of October, Umberto Napolitano will enter in the « Académie d’Architecture ».

September 2016 is the time of renewal : we have the pleasure to present you the new comers in LAN.

This year, the Architecture Triennale of Oslo, named “After Belonging” aims to answer to the two questions: How can different agents involved in the built environment address the ways we stay in transit? How can architects intervene in the reconfiguration of the contemporary residence? The vernissage will take place in Oslo on the 10th of September, at the school of architecture and design of AHO.

The DETAIL review presents the Carré Lumière residences in its last issue released in July 2016. The article describes the 79 collective housings from their conception to their construction, sharing precise technical drawings.

The building permit for the Saint-Urbain project in the urban development zone of L’Etoile in Strasbourg has been submitted in the beginning of July.

The urban project of Amédée Saint-Germain led the team to make a typologic study of the Sacré-Coeur district housing. It is how we dealt with the "échoppe" caracteristics in depth: a typical house from Gironde region and especially from Bordeaux, that will inspire the architecture of the futur project.

LAN is invited to take part in the event Cadre de Ville and will give a conference on the thematic : "Living city : adapted housings, new uses of housings, value of the associated services". (Drawing : Akagi, Kojiro 赤木 曠児郎, 1972).

We invite you to discover Pli: a publication of architecture and edition. Its next issue will be launched on the 22th September, at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal.

During the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Umberto Napolitano will be part of a round table organized by the Institut Français of Norway and the AHO: the architecture and design school of Oslo.

From the assembly in LAN’s studio in Paris, to the transport, until the setting in the room of the Central Pavilion of Giardini, find the making-of the installations of both projects presented at the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice.

Lormont in the spotlights in Venice. The renovation of the Génicart district in Lormont, illustrates the theme of the architecture exhibition 2016 : "Reporting from the front". It shows how architectural gestures and landscape interventions can modify an urban environment, for the better.

Between the Giardini and the Arsenal, LAN recommends you 10 unmissable projects during your trip to the architecture Biennale of Venice.

The construction of the model of Bègles for the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice required a lot of toy objects. The lasercut enabled us to make a large number of them. For the rest, a little store looking like Hansel and Gretel tale provided us.

The first stone of the large student residences project (1 000 beds and 899 housing units) of the urban development zone of Moulon, Paris-Saclay campus, in Gif-sur-Yvette (91) was layed on the 25th of May 2016, in the presence of Valérie Pécresse.

Didier Faustino invited LAN to participate to the special edition Collector 2016. Its launch took place at the Palazzo Grassi, on Friday 28th of May 2016, during the professional day of the Architecture Biennale of Venice. This edition presents the work of about twenty personnalities who should - to the redaction mind - strike the 2016 architectural news.

On the 18th of June, the city-hall of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande was inaugurated. The Mayor, Mr Emmanuel Couet and the municipal team was glad to present the building to the general public.

On the 9th of June, LAN was invited to the round table "Qu'est-ce que la lumière dans l'architecture ?" (What is light in architecture ?), at Paris Belleville National School of Architecture. Each participant had to describe two pictures illustrating their answer.

LAN answered the competition regarding the Bonnat-Helleu City Art Museum of Bayonne. «Extending the gallery space towards the school provides the opportunity to create an entity that would spring naturally from the original form, and from the spatial experience of the Planckaert project.»

LAN will soon be unveiling its next project, sited on Avenue Montaigne in Paris. Meanwhile, let us share with you the history of one of the emblematic buildings that sits close by: the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

The first samples of facade concrete have been produced. Their particularity resides in their gradation from a sandy to a sand-blasted texture. They will constitute the façade of plot 5 of the Nantes project.

From the 28th of May until the 27th of November 2016, LAN will participate to the next edition of the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice : Report from the front. Alejandro Aravena, who recently received the Pritzker Price and is the curator of the event, invits the participants to present the role of architecture in the struggle for the improvment of life quality through twisted ways, changing contexts and the exploitation of new intervention fields. You will be able to discover the presentation of two of LAN's projects in the Central Pavilion of Giardini.

The Avery Review is a journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media. LAN has been invited to be one of the contributors of its next publication. Here is the introduction :

LAN is invited by the association DEVENIR to give a lecture on the 3rd of May 2016 at the Vasarely Foundation, in Aix-en-Provence.

In the first AMC Special issue - "Portrait d'Agence", 50 pages relate the studio, its projects and philosophy.

The magazine of architecture SAN ROCCO asked LAN to contribute to "Your Favorite Client". The rule was clear : "Client acquisition has always been and remains one of the hardest and most frustrating activity of an architect. Somehow taboo as it as to do with ones most secret networks, but also because “direct assignment” is almost politically incorrect.13 architects reveal to us which personality they always wished to convince....."

On the 10th of May, LAN will give a lecture in the Aula Magna of the Politecnico of Turin, about the renewal of the housing patrimonial in our cities.

In the framework of the Tenjin Business Center project in Fukuoka, LAN discovered Kurume-Kasuri, a Japanese dye fabric technique. Waiting for the description of this project in the next bi-monthly, here is the story of the Kurume-Kasuri:

The Arena Design is a unique venue for business meetings of producers and designers as well as a space for the presentation of the latest achievements in the field of design.

LAN won the competition for the Amédée Saint Germain's project in Bordeaux Euratlantique, which is an urban operation of national interest, the major urban project in France, outside of the Parisian region.

At the moment, LAN is doing a colour research for the façades of the urban project of Strasbourg.

The first prototypes of the "Muses" for the project of the student residence are arrived : "Without orientation, nor prioritization, five cylinders, perfectly extruded from the circle, form the volumes and become ultimately part ofthe landscape composition, following the example from the gardens of pleasure in the early 18th century."