Highlights
October - November 2019
Nanterre | Tripoli | AA | Maillon | Saussure | Nanterre | Nacarat | Brussels | Ljubljana | Vienna
Mininum-security prison of Nanterre
Completed
The minimum-security prison located in the city of Nanterre has just been completed.
Tripoli
Niemeyer4ever
The photographer Giovanna Silva invited Umberto to write the foreword of her new book on Oscar Niemeyer's unfinished project in Tripoli.
AA
The theater
Umberto Napolitano with Andrea Guazzieri teach Diploma 5 at the Architectural Assocation School of Architecture. DIP5 studies the relationship between architecture and the city, using the main elements of urbanity. This year the theater is at the center of research.
Maillon
Opening November 23rd
The sign of the Théâtre du Maillon has been delivered and the housewarming is scheduled for the 23th of November.
Saussure
Update
Five years later, Cyrille Weiner once again photographed Saussure. Inspired by the Haussmanian building, this project presents a total reversibility between housing and office. It was at the origin of all the research carried out by LAN on Paris Haussmann.
Minimum-security prison of Nanterre
Evolution of the construction site
From the requirements of the prison administration to the large number of lots, the site of le quartier de semi liberté has been one of the most complex to manage. A look at the evolution.
Minimum-security prison of Nanterre
Blurring the feeling of heterotopia
The minimum-security prison of Nanterre was above all an opportunity to confront the typology of the prison with recent societal considerations, with the ambition of blurring the feeling of heterotopy between the city and the enclosure of the penitentiary.
Maillon
Pre-inauguration
On October 1st, President Emmanuel Macron pre-inaugurated the Théâtre du Maillon which he describes as "a magical place that can constantly reinvent itself, be reconfigured, remodeled."
Brussels
Competition won
LAN and MDW Architecture have won the competition for the construction of 340 housing units in Brussels.
Ljubljana
Competition
Here is our proposal submitted to the competition for the construction of the headquarters of Dimnikcobau d.o.o in Ljublana.
Vienna
Lecture
How to transform socially, culturally and technologically large-scale real estate projects after the war? Could the Lormont project have been possible in Vienna? Umberto Napolitano tried to answer those questions during his lecture on 25 September at the Architekturzentrum in Vienna.