AN ENCOUNTER WITH FRANKLIN AZZI, DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Thursday 24 March —
10:00
- 10:30
The Talks — Hall 7
Description
How can we design, sketch out and craft the world of tomorrow in our everyday lives today? Rather than providing obsolete answers, architect Franklin Azzi, who takes an open, multifaceted approach on every level and to every field, gives us food for thought in light of fiction and retro-futurism.
Participants
Franklin AzziArchitect & Founder - Franklin Azzi Design
Marion VignalJournalist
Franklin Azzi
Architect & Founder - Franklin Azzi Design
Within his Parisian agency founded in 2006, Franklin Azzi uses a cross-category approach that is nourished by intersecting views and disciplines. By constantly bringing architecture, interior design, design and contemporary art into dialogue, with the support of the particular endowment fund, he practices a certain art of designing and building that is open to all scales and types of spaces. Franklin Azzi infuses his commitment as a designer/builder into every aspect of his designs, from large-scale to the smallest detail of manufacturing, whether it’s a public or private commission, in France or abroad. In doing this, he infuses heritage buildings with fresh energy, invents the living and working spaces of tomorrow (The Bureau, Be In for LVMH), rethinks urban planning with total respect for existing structures (Beaupassage for Emmerige), and develops removable and detachable structures (the pavilion on the rooftop of Galeries Lafayette). Such are the many spaces that are defining a new horizon of possibilities, with a contemporary, sustainable approach that serves its users.
Marion Vignal
Journalist