On Thursday, August 8, at 7:00 PM, Pierre Alain Trévelo, founder of the firm TVK, will deliver a lecture organized by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Architecture (CEAC) at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, with the support of the French Institute and the Embassy of France in Argentina, and featuring an introduction by Darío Graschinsky.
TVK is an architecture and urban design firm founded by Pierre Alain Trévelo and Antoine Viger-Kohler in Paris in 2003. The studio pursues an approach in which theory and practice aim to enrich one another through strategic, open, and collective research on the built environment. TVK has developed buildings, public spaces, and urban and territorial plans throughout France and the rest of Europe. Their work has been recognized with the Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes (2005) and Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes (2006) awards, and the firm has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Atelier International du Grand Paris since 2012. Between 2017 and 2019, the firm led the Atelier des Places du Grand Paris, with the goal of defining design principles for the public space of the future Grand Paris Express metro. They have published several books, including La Terre est une architecture (Spector Books, 2021) and Ouvrage Of Sand and Stones (Rue du Bouquet, 2021).
