Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda - A Conversation with Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal

Everyday Delights. A Conversation with Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal

Cristina Díaz Moreno y Efrén García Grinda

GREENHOUSES AND THE LATAPIE HOUSE
Let’s start the interview speaking about the start of your practice. Surprisingly, a lot of issues you developed later on were very clearly present in Latapie house. How were you approached by the client and how did the project unfold?
ANNE LACATON: They contacted us by chance and we started to have some meetings. They were very timid and explained to us that they had already designed some plans after thinking about installing a 'catalogue house' on the plot, but they didn’t want to show the drawings to us. They lived quite close to the plot in an apartment block, and during our first appointment we started speaking about their light blue RV and the vacations they used to spend by the seaside in the south of Spain. From the very beginning we tried to surpass the subject of the program, breaking any preconceived conventional ideas they might have had. We brought some books including one about the Case Study Houses, because we didn’t know how to engage them in the discussion. .