Francis Cauffman

The work of Francis Cauffman creates a dialogue between program and place. They reveal the relationships embedded in the environment and activities of a specific project. What is their client's true aim in doing this project? What do they do, and why do they do it? How can they influence their work? This active and essential conversation with their clients becomes the story of their architecture. Francis Cauffman integrates their clients' desired patterns of activity and their functional needs with the physical aspects of architecture. Their emerging body of work amplifies that relationship through a subtle and pragmatic resolution of the specific program for a given project. Francis Cauffman demonstrates new ways of understanding how place and program drive behaviours. They create architectural hybrids that merge a variety of uses and relate to specific environments in terms of the physical forms and human activities that they nurture and stimulate. This portfolio includes nine current works of varying scale, program and complexity.

Year

2015

Language

English

Publisher

ORO Editions

Editions

1

Pages

99

ISBN

9781941806012

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