Frederic Chartier & Pascale Dalix | Tecnoglass Lecture Series
'HOSTING LIFE'
The variety of different projects undertaken by the office and the diversity of the solutions provided constitute a whole that reflects the evolution of contemporary living conditions. For ChartierDalix, architecture is envisaged as a built system combining the means to welcome life, poetry, and the commons.
Our holistic approach to architecture and landscape is based on multidisciplinary skills. Developing the city by involving different disciplines and considering animal and plant species in an ecological process is a way to ensure the long-term future of our spaces. We believe that it is possible to conceive of the living and the urban in a true relationship of otherness, based on greater reciprocity. This means reversing values so that the design of the unbuilt is as important as that of the built. This is the basis of our philosophy.
Faculty Moderators: Carie Pendabad + Andrew Clum
BIO//
Since its creation in 2008 by Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix, the office has been conducting research into the integration of life into the built environment and the relationship between architecture and landscape. In this vein, ChartierDalix has been developing landscape projects since 2021, offering a dual approach to landscape: autonomous and exclusive, or linked to one of the office's architectural projects.
In 15 years, ChartierDalix has delivered around thirty buildings. All these projects are compiled in a two-volume monograph entitled ChartierDalix. Built Work, Archives 2008-2022, published in 2023 by Park Books.
The office has received numerous awards, including the Moniteur Première Œuvre award in 2009 and the european young architects award 40 under 40 in 2012. In 2022, the new AP-HP headquarters in Paris (12th) won the Équerre d'argent award category Activity. The office has also been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2015 and 2019, and received the Le Soufaché prize in 2017, awarded by the Académie d'architecture for the whole of its work. In 2019, Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix were appointed Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres by the french ministry of Culture. Pascale Dalix is a member of the Academy of architecture since September 2020.
The office has won international competitions: in 2017 for the metamorphosis of the Montparnasse Tower with Nouvelle AOM (ChartierDalix, Franklin Azzi Architecture, Hardel Le Bihan Architectes), and more recently in 2021, for the reconstruction of the Bockmühle school campus in Essen (Germany) and the restructuring of a historic block in the centre of Warsaw.
In 2023, ChartierDalix contributed to the 5th edition of the Chicago International Architecture Biennial entitled This is a Rehearsal (The Floating Museum). The exhibition ChartierDalix – Systems, hosted by the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC), marked the end of a residency focusing on the need to invent new models of resilience for the high-rise neighbourhoods that emerged from Modernity, supported by the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine and the Villa Albertine.
The office has recently delivered a memorial garden in Amiens (80); a logistics centre support of urban agriculture with a green belt in Vitry-sur-Seine (94) ; a timber-framed building for the Grenoble Ecole de Management in Pantin (93) and a dozen projects are currently under construction.
Our first research about how to host life in architecture was published in the book Hosting life : Architecture as an ecosystem published by Park Books in 2019.