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A photo of a woman standing on a balcony overlooking a housing complex

Lacaton & Vassal: Living in the City

Rothwell Chair in Architectural Design Leadership

This exhibition foregrounds a critical priority for the Pritzker Prize-winning French architects: Urbanism begins inside each apartment, with quality housing for everyone.

Exhibition dates: July 27 - September 23 2023

Opening night: Thursday 27 July 6-8pm

A still from a video showing a rooftop apartment. Subtitles read: "We take in the air, we have the view, a horizon,"

Still from 'Constructing Escape - A Story about Air, Void and Light (Part 4)' a film by Karine Dana, 2019

This exhibition presents three years of teaching and research framed by inaugural Rothwell co-chairs Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal at the University of Sydney School of Ar­chitecture, Design, and Planning. 

Connecting Lacaton & Vassal’s architectural projects, doc­umentary films, research, and studio investigations focused on the Sirius Building and the Waterloo Housing Estate, Lacaton & Vassal: Living in the City illumi­nates a method based on close attention, transformation rather than demolition, and provision of the highest quality of living space. It foregrounds a critical priority for the Pritzker Prize-winning French architects: Urbanism begins inside each apartment, with quality housing for everyone.

Curators: Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Hannes Frykholm & Catherine Lassen

Collaborators: Matthew Asimakis, Liat Busqila, Mackenzie Nix, Caitlin Roseby


Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.

Top image: Transformation of 530 Dwellings, Bordeaux, France, photo by Philippe Ruault 2015


Sponsored by the Embassy of France in Australia.

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