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PARKitectOUR, is a book which documents the three student workshops held in Italy and Switzerland by the University Of Applied Sciences of Bern. The task was to show Parkour and architecture within urban projects.
Parkour is a new sport that was created in the suburbs of Paris. A Traceur (the runner) moves smoothly, acrobatically and quickly through impenetrable, typically urban terrain. The Traceurs motion creates the "urban free flow." This urban free flow is what the students had to trace in their designs.
This was completed along with urban planning tasks in the surroundings of a Luigi Nervi building in Turin. The workshop was organized in cooperation with the Politecnico di Torino. The other two workshops are part of the freshman curriculum at the university where Guy Lafranchi is the dean of studies of the architecture department.
List of contents
Preface Lebbeus Woods.- Preface Guy Lafranchi.- Workshop Description Turin (I).- Projects Documentation.- Workshop Description Burgdorf (CH).- Projects Documentation.- Workshop Description Ostermundigen (CH).- Projects Documentation.
About the author
Guy, Lafranchi, geb. 1966, studierte Architektur an der ETH Zürich. 1996 gründete er sein eigenes Büro in Bern. Er hält Vorträge an der Barlett School of Architecture in London und am Niederländischen Architektur Institut (NAI) in Rotterdam sowie an der TU Berlin und der TU in Lund, Schweden. Er ist Mitbegründer von RIEA.ch.
Lebbeus Woods, born in 1940, trained Architect, worked for Eero Saarinen (1964-1968). Theory and experimental projects since 1976. Founder and Scientific Director of the Research Institute of experimental Architecture, Europe (RIEA Europe). Has been a visiting Professor of Architecture at the Cooper Union, SCI-Arc, Harvard and Columbia Universities.
