Cycle "Living in the city and its transitions" #2: agence Barrault & Pressacco
© Cyrille Georges Jerusalmi (Portraits) / © Barrault Pressacco (Projet - A Practice)
In 2026, the Quartus Endowment for Architecture continues its lecture series entitled “Living in the city and its transitions”.
The next meeting in this second season will feature architects Thibaut Barrault and Cyril Pressacco:
Objets trouvés
“Preserving a building engages the project in a particular mechanism: it involves revealing the potential of a building to become habitable in a different way. The challenges of construction then shift from strictly structural issues to those of finishing work, and in particular to all the elements involved in thermal comfort. The project is born of the articulation between what’s already there – the found object – and the added elements.
Inhabiting the city and its transitions – season 2″ lecture series
This new cycle of conferences continues to question the manufacture of housing and ways of living in the light of environmental, economic and social upheavals.
From February to November 2026, six architectural firms are invited to share their practices and reflections on the act of living:
- February 11, 2026: Cierto Estudio – Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol, Carlota de Gispert, Anna Llonch, Lucía Millet, Clara Vidal: Open domesticity
- April 1, 2026: Thibaut Barrault & Cyril Pressacco: Lost & Found
- May 12, 2026: Gricha Bourbouze & Cécile Graindorge: The pleasure of constraint
- Autumn 2026: Simon Teyssou: Living in ordinary territories
- Autumn 2026: Aline and Jean Harari: Survival Architecture – A disciplinary challenge
- Date to be determined: Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal: Free space, transformation, living
