Florence Lipsky FR

https://lipskyrollet-ae.com/fr
21 rue du tunnel | 75019 paris

Florence Lipsky is an architect trained at the School of Architecture in Grenoble. She has a PhD in architecture. She studied the living territory of university campuses in a comparative approach between France, USA, and Japan. Her career develops between research and practice. Between 1988 and 1990 she has been as visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley on a Lavoisier Grant sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a result, she published the book « San Francisco, the grid on the hills » (Parenthèses Editions). She has also been a resident at " Villa Kujoyama " in Kyoto in 2002. She is now a professor at the School of Architecture Paris-La-Villette.
The firm was founded in 1990 with Pascal Rollet. Lipsky + Rollet creates a sustainable architecture based on ecologically responsible building processes and the view that cities are ecosystems in and of themselves. The office develops research programs in the field of ecological construction and architectural design as well as urban planning of human settlements. L+R designs and produces passive buildings using both updated ancestral materials, ancient know-hows and cutting-edge active systems. L+R architecture takes a purely pragmatic approach, setting aside any preconceived notions to offer a smart combination of low tech and high tech. Their approach to housing and university campuses is rooted in the notion of a “living “milieu” developed by the French school of ethno-geography.
L+R designs buildings which they call “tool buildings”, dedicated to education and research, cultural and industrial projects of significant cultural and economical impact. L+R approach to architecture is based on R&D, and integrates experimentation as a design tool. The experiments, conducted within this R&D methodology, use construction materials and innovative building systems to realise spatial configurations that aim to reduce the building’s energy footprint and optimize all performance as well as its level of comfort. Erevna has been created in 2019 as a research department focusing on the topic of Reuse in architecture.