Photo Guy Vacheret
Présentation
Matteo Cainer is both an architect and a curator. Based between London and Paris, he is founder and Director of Matteo Cainer Architects and Associate Professor at the school. Prior to opening his own office he worked and collaborated with a number of celebrated international practices including Eisenman Architects in New York City, Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna, and Arata Isozaki Associati in Milano.
In 2004 is Assistant Director to Kurt W.Forster for the 9th International Venice Architecture Biennale and in 2006 is appointed curator of the London Architecture Biennale. In 2010 he conceives and directs the “Pavillon Spéciale”, which has now reached its second edition. Matteo’s work has received various mentions and has been published in different books and international magazines ; furthermore he has written and edited a number of books and articles in the field of architecture and design. He has also been a visiting critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Pratt Architecture School and Columbia University in New York.
Enseignement
Atelier d’Architecture "Jazz and Architecture _2012"
This year’s studio will offer a different and more complete approach to an architectural project. It will look at architecture, with intellectual basis and formalism, as concept and as built idea. We will challenge the relationship, the musicality and juxtaposition between jazz and architecture. How the inherent properties of jazz i.e. : rhythm, proportion and improvisation can lead to an architectural project. How the project in its conceptual improvisation is translated into an architectural rhythm with very specific proportions, structure and stability. The site will be in Paris and more specifically Montparnasse.
