Living in the city and its transitions: the pleasure of constraint
Tuesday 12 May 2026 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free on booking
A conversation with Cécile Graindorge and Gricha Bourbouze exploring ways of living in the face of environmental, economic and social upheavals.
The two architects share their reflections on the contemporary construction of collective housing, examining both the pleasure offered to the first residents and the city’s long-term perspective, whilst demonstrating how the complexity and contradictions inherent in any project can inform the architectural approach.
In the constant back-and-forth between domestic intimacy and the large urban scale, they explore, to borrow Robert Venturi’s words, this ‘difficult unity’ as one of the keys to renewing our ways of living.
An event organised by the Quartus Endowment Fund for Architecture, in partnership with the architecture journal, as part of the lecture series “Living in the City and its Transitions – Season 2”.