François Roche Explained

François Roche
Birth Place:Paris, France
Nationality:French
Alma Mater:École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles
Practice:R&Sie(n) Architects
New Territories/M4

François Roche (born 1961[1]) is a French architect. Roche is the co-founder and director of R&Sie(n) Architects and the research architectural firm, New Territories/M4.

Early life and education

François Roche was born in 1961 in Paris, France.[1] Roche sought to study science and math in college, but, was unable to enroll in a specific class he wanted to attend and changed his degree to architecture. His interest in the sciences would go on to influence his architectural work. He spent time in an Algerian desert during his time in college, deciding if he wanted to finish his degree in architecture. In 1987, he graduated from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles.[1]

Career

Roche founded his first studio in Paris in 1989.[1] He expanded to incorporate in 1994, after his first solo show "Action" at IFA (Institut Francais d'Architecture), Stephanie Lavaux as a partner, naming the studio R&Sie(n),[1] the "R" in the name is for Roche, the "S" is for Stephanie, and is pronounced similarly to the word "heresy" in French, but also "RSI" in reference to Real Symbolic Imaginary of J. Lacan. The studio specializes in architectural "investigations" and "scenarios" with the goal of connecting the relationship between humans and buildings.[1] Roche would go on to create New Territories/M4, which houses R&Sie, along with other installation, architectural, and digital design projects, with partner Camille Lacadée.[2] [3]

Since the 1990s, Roche has been represented by an androgynous, digitally created avatar named s/he. Roche describes s/he as "a kind of doppelgänger, a Siamese twin, the mask of Mishima, an avatar of Vishnu. Androgynous in appearance and with a queer attitude, s/he has enabled me for twenty-five years to maintain a singular voice, coming from nowhere, emerging from territories that abandoned the posture of authority, of discourse, and of academia."[4]

In 2004, R&Sie(n) created DustyRelief for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand.[4] The piece was designed to absorb the city smog, which would then cause the structure to grow. The piece was inspired by Man Ray's Dust Breeding. The project was canceled due to a coup d'état.[4]

While speaking in at an event in London in 2010, Roche shared that he would be "happy" if somebody went into one of his buildings or designs, got lost, and abandons need of exit, in reference to S. Brussolo novel (Trajets et Itineraires de l'oubli, 1981). That same year, Roche ended his professional relationship with Lavaux and began working with Camille Lacadée. In 2011, the avatar used to represent the R&Sie(n) committed "suicide" only to re-emerge in 2017. Around 2013, Roche opened a studio in the Talat Noi neighborhood of Bangkok. Before relocating from Paris to Bangkok, Roche transformed his Paris house in a project called I'm Lost in Paris. The project involved cultivating bacteria which turned into vegetation covering the house.

Roche and Lacadée launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to an "experimental hybrid building" called MMYST. The project was to be built by robots in Thailand.[5] In May 2015, Roche, Lacadée, and Pierre Huyghe to create "What Could Happen," an "experimental euthanasia expedition" in the Swiss Alps.[3] [6] [7] In October 2015, he lectured with Lacadée at the University of Michigan's Taubman College.[8] That same month, Roche and Lacadée exhibited #mythomaniaS at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The exhibit included videos of "architectural scenarios" around the world.[2] Roche's professional partnership with Lacadée ended in 2015.[9]

In 2016, Frac Centre-Val de Loire held a retrospective, titled S/he would rather do fiction maker of Roche's work with New Territories/M4.

Roche's work has been exhibited at Mori Art Museum, Columbia University, the Pompidou Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University[10] and other museums and galleries.[1] Roche has exhibited in the Venice Biennale multiple times,[8] including in 2004's Metamorph International Architecture Exposition;[11] the 2008 International Architecture Exposition in which R&Sie exhibited their "bi[r]o-bo[o]ts";[12] the 2014 "Time Space Existence: Made in Europe" biennale;[13] and 2018 at the Bembo Pavilion and the Lithuanian Pavilion.[14] [15] Roche has also participated as a panelist at the 2012 United States pavilion.[16] His 2010 installation, Building Which Never Dies, was partially confiscated by Italian police for containing uranium. The incident caused an entire section of the Biennale to be closed for an entire day.

Themes and concepts in Roche's work

Roche's works often represent the divergence of science, architecture, philosophy, science fiction genetics, art, identity, and biopolitics.[9] However, through the avatar, Roche explores philosophical concepts of the LGBTQI community, communications, and philosophy. In describing his beliefs and work, Roche often cites fiction and non-fiction, ranging from Jacques Lacan to Noam Chomsky to Paul B. Preciado. Roche describes s/he and New Territories as “tool to knot and unknot realities" in the spirit of Michel Foucault.

The Frac Centre-Val de Loire calls Roche's early work as veering "towards hybridization and “hyperlocalism”, aimed at distorting reality and bringing out its most significant unusualness." In 1996, Roche started using digital processes to create his work. Roche's later works also incorporate robotics complemented by writing and lectures.[9]

Reception

Roche has been called an "elusive" artist by The New York Times, a "provocateur" by the Bangkok Post, and "always provocative" by The Architect's Newspaper.[3] [17] [18] The New York Times describes Roche's work as "not buildings exactly, but scientific experiments."[3]

Monographs

All monographies/ texts / article are public and free downloadable [32]

Academia

Roche and S/he were involved in Guest Professor position among other places and chronologically at Bartlett-UCL-London 2000, at UPenn-Philadelphia 2006 and 2015–016, at GSAPP-Columbia-NYC 2006–2017, at USC-Los Angeles 2009–11, at RMIT-Melbourne 2012–2017, and few years at IKA (2017) and Angewante-Vienna (2009), AFAA-Bratislava (2018). He taught 'processes' in 2023 at KHM-Koln, and his a permanent member of EGS _ Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought since 2012[33]

Notable exhibitions

Notable collections

Further reading

Works about François Roche
Works by François Roche

Personal life

Roche lives in Bangkok. Roche goes to great lengths to avoid having his photograph published, a concept he has compared to Daft Punk or Margiela.[52] [3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wackerow . Elaine . World-renowned architect Francois Roche to speak at Syracuse Architecture . SU News . Syracuse University . 23 May 2021 . 9 October 2008.
  2. News: Korody . Nicholas . Cutting across the Chicago Architecture Biennial: the Myth-Making of New-Territories / M4 . 23 May 2021 . Archinect . 19 October 2015 . en.
  3. News: Aleksander . Irina . Going Places: François Roche and Pierre Huyghe's Train to Nowhere . 23 May 2021 . T Magazine . 13 May 2015.
  4. News: Budor . Dora . Architectural Psychoscapes: Francois Roche • . 27 May 2021 . Mousse Magazine . 2017-07-21 . it-IT.
  5. News: Korody . Nicholas . MMYST: a crowd-funded, human-animal hybrid building by François Roche and Camille Lacadee of New-Territories/M4 . 23 May 2021 . Archinect . 30 September 2015 . en.
  6. News: Gratza . Agnieszka . Agnieszka Gratza on New-Territories and Pierre Huyghe's "What Could Happen" . 23 May 2021 . ARTFORUM . 24 March 2015.
  7. News: Lesmoir-Gordon . Laura . Pierre Huyghe Goes Hiking the Alps (to Make Art) . 23 May 2021 . Artnet News . 19 January 2015.
  8. Web site: Lecture: Francois Roche and Camille Lacadee . Taubman College . University of Michigan . 23 May 2021 . en . 12 October 2015.
  9. Web site: New-Territories (S/he) . Frac Centre . 27 May 2021 . fr.
  10. News: Wong . Tony . Commonplace innovation . 23 May 2021 . Yale Daily News . 3 March 2017 . en.
  11. Web site: 9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura METAMORPH . Archimagazine . 27 May 2021.
  12. News: venice architecture biennale 08: R&SIE(n) + DS . 27 May 2021 . designboom . 2008-09-30 . en.
  13. Book: Time, space, existence : made in Europe . 2014 . Bonn . 978-94-90784-15-7 . 27 May 2021. Jongh . Karlyn de .
  14. Saunders . Zack . New Solidarities: #digitaldisobedience at the Venice Biennale . Log 44 . January 2018 . 27 May 2021 . en.
  15. Web site: Welch . Adrian . Venice Biennale Lithuanian Pavilion 2018 . e-architect . 27 May 2021 . 2018-04-28.
  16. Web site: Biennale Architettura 2012 - Writing Architecture: The Common Ground of the Printed Page . . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/GTUWxCgXGWw . 2021-12-15 . live. 27 May 2021 . en.
  17. News: Sutthavong . Ariane . Provocateur-in-chief . 24 May 2021 . Bangkok Post . 21 December 2017.
  18. News: Shaw . Matt . The Greg Lynn Show LIVE from the CCA . 23 May 2021 . The Architect’s Newspaper . 11 May 2016.
  19. https://www.amazon.com/digitaldisobediences-would-rather-Fiction-MAKER-ebook/dp/B07G4J3H3K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535801017&sr=8-1&keywords=digitaldisobediences/ Digitaldisobediences
  20. http://punctumbooks.com/titles/mythomanias/ mythomaniaS
  21. Web site: Heretical Machinism and Living Architecture . 2015-02-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160320221540/http://www.arc1.uniroma1.it/saggio/RivoluzioneInformatica/IndexIT.Html . 2016-03-20 . dead .
  22. http://www.new-territories.com/blog/architecturedeshumeurs/wp-content/uploads/2010/pdf/mouvement%20UK%20Une_architecture_des_humeurs_UKlight2.pdf / Mouvement Publisher
  23. http://www.c3p.kr/magazine/magazine_view.htm?mid=45 / C3 Korea Publisher
  24. https://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568988696 / Princeton Press Bioreboot
  25. https://www.amazon.com/Sie-Fiction-Scripts-Chinese/dp/7543461633 / Fiction Scripts
  26. https://books.google.com/books?id=hAncZnElSO8C / Spoiled Climate
  27. http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/rsien / Paris Musee Publisher
  28. https://www.amazon.com/DD-05-SIE-Corrupted-Biotopes/dp/8995359870 / Corrupted Biotopes
  29. http://traac.info/blog/?p=305 / T(e)en Years After
  30. http://www.frac-centre.fr/ressources/les-publications/monographies/mutations-morphes-r-dsv-sie-p-49.html?article=64 / Mutation @morphes
  31. https://www.amazon.fr/Lombre-cam%C3%A9l%C3%A9on-Kameleon-trilingue-japonais/dp/2904448284 / The Shadow of Chameleon
  32. https://new-territories.com/newterritories%20francoisroche%20booktexts.htm / >>>HERE<<<
  33. Web site: EGS Faculty .
  34. News: Fairs . Marcus . Asphalt Spot by R&Sie . 27 May 2021 . Dezeen . 2007-03-11 . en.
  35. News: André . Laetitia . Le 'snake' de François Roche . 23 May 2021 . BFM Immo . 29 March 2010 . fr.
  36. Web site: francois roche I've heard about . New Territories . 27 May 2021.
  37. News: Lee . Ka Ki . An Extensive Look Into Coding The World At Pompidou Center . 23 May 2021 . World Architecture Community . 22 June 2018 . en.
  38. Web site: Radical Nature | Barbican . 19 June 2009 .
  39. News: 'Lost in Paris' house, by R&Sie architects . 23 May 2021 . Wallpaper* . 6 February 2009.
  40. News: Wiles . William . I'm Lost In Paris . 23 May 2021 . ICON Magazine . 14 December 2009.
  41. http://www.arcspace.com/exhibitions/unsorted/green-architecture-for-the-future-/ Green Building, Louisiana, Denmark
  42. Web site: Future and the Arts Quick Walkthrough! #1 . Mori Art Museum . 23 May 2021 . en . 27 December 2019.
  43. Web site: Arts des nouveaux médias · L'architecture des humeurs . Arts des nouveaux médias . 27 May 2021 . fr-FR.
  44. News: Korody . Nicholas . New-Territories projects forward in its "retrospective" at the FRAC Centre in Val de Loire, France . 23 May 2021 . Archinect . 30 November 2016 . en.
  45. https://en.bacc.or.th/event/2714.html/ FortuneShel(tell)er
  46. https://kunstaspekte.art/event/biennale-of-sydney-2022?hl=en / PsychoTropism 2.0
  47. https://www.beauxarts.com/lifestyle/dans-les-sous-sols-interdits-de-paris-la-defense-rencontre-avec-une-etrange-creature-ephemere/ The Past-Future Chamber
  48. Web site: Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou . Centre Pompidou . 27 May 2021 . fr . 2021-04-13.
  49. Web site: Roche, François . SFMOMA . 23 May 2021.
  50. Web site: MUDAM: François Roche / R&Sie(n) . archive1018.mudam.lu . 24 May 2021 . en-EN.
  51. Web site: "mind [e] scape" at The Hojoki Shiki in 2018 - Artworks｜Echigo-Tsumari Art Field ]. Echigo-Tsumari Art Field . 27 May 2021.
  52. News: Profile: François Roche and R&Sie(n) . 23 May 2021 . ICON Magazine . 8 August 2011.

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