Meeting-debate: Mies Van Der Rohe 2019

In 2019, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award brought together 383 works in 238 cities and 38 countries, and focused on the new challenges facing architects, building owners, policy makers and professionals. In selecting the architects Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin for their rehabilitation of 530 housing units in the Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux, it emphasized an approach to the large social housing complexes of the 20th century that avoids their demolition and acts by transformation as close as possible to the inhabitants, to improve living conditions and meet the requirements of sustainable development. To continue to question architectural practices and respond to Hashim Sarkis' How will we live together?, Christophe Hutin proposed to bring together the prize winners at the Biennale Architettura 2021.