Biography
Cyrille and Laurent P. Berger work and live in Paris.
Cyrille Berger and Laurent P. Berger, respectively architect and visual artist, have been collaborating for three years on architectural projects under the name Berger&Berger.
They offer open-ended layouts, which can be freely interpreted, and which are not designed to meet preordained functions, but which tend rather to invent uses for themselves. In March 2008 Berger&Berger were winners of the Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes, a prize awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. Founded by Christine Chalas and Laurent P. Berger, Archipel Ephémère accompanies the Berger&Berger projects. Transient Archipelago is a cross-disciplinary structure which questions the mechanisms of contemporary society by exploring the fields of art, society and politics.
Since 2007 they have been in residence at the CENTQUATRE to work on the design of a programme of detached homes, called "A paradise island is a man-made show".
The completed project will involve the construction of a series of micro-dwellings, conceived as living spaces which anyone can easily make their own. These modules do not have fixed functions; it is the visitors themselves who redefine how they are used.
In January 2008, their project for the Venice Lagoon Park, designed in association with BuildingBuilding won them the "International Ideas Competition" organised by the architectural review 2G. Download the press release.
DEC. 16-21 2008
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