FRANÇOIS ROCHE
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
François Roche was born in Paris in 1961 and is a graduate of the School of Architecture of Versaille (1987). In 1989 he founded R&Sie(n) architecture studio along with architects Stephanie Lavaux and Jean Navarro. R&Sie(n) has exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, Columbia University, New York, and the Pompidou Center, Paris as well as the Venice Architectural Biennale representing France (1990, 1996 and 2000). Roche is currently teaching at the advanced research studio at Columbia University.
FRANÇOIS ROCHE
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Exhibitions
2010 Le Laboratoire, Bio-reboot (une architecture des humeurs) / Paris
2009 Transclimatic, Sydney
Transitory objects, TBA21, 2009 -2010, Vienna
Barbican, Radical Natures, London
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Frontiers of Architecture II, Denmark
Confines, Spain, IVAM, Valencia
2008 BIACS3, Biennale, YOUniverse, Seville, Spain
Architecture in the Making, Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria
(Im)material Processes, Biennale, Beijing, China
Anxious Climate, Acadia Event, Minneapolis, USA
Beyond Architecture, International Pavilion, Venice, Italy
SAM, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Instant Urbanism, Basel, Switzerland
‘’Beyond Form’’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Tel Aviv
2007 ‘’New Trend Architects’’, Australie, Melbourne, Australia
‘’New Trend Architects’’, Japan, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
‘’Airs de Paris’’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘’Pan exhibition’’, Italy, SESV Gallery, Florence, Italy
‘’Nature Design’’, Switzerland, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich
‘’Space for your Futur’’, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
‘’Algorithmic Revolution’’, ZKM, Germany, Stuttgart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘’MI(pi)bar’’, Massachusetts
2006 ‘’Pan exhibition’’, Taylor Gallery, New York
New Trends Architects, 2006, Patras, Tokyo, Melbourne, Luxembourg
Beijing Biennal, ‘Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies’’, World Art Museum, Beijing
Tate Modern,” Terra Incognita”, 200 m², London
Vitra, Open House, Hypnosis Chamber 1, Germany
Singapore, Biennale, Hypnosis Chamber 2, Singapore
New-Trend architects, Japan, Patras-Tokyo
“I’ve heard about, dystopia” De Singel, Antwerp
2005 “Ive heard about”, MAM/ARC, Paris
2004 Mori Tower, New experiments from sixties, Tokyo
Node 1, Kanazawa (Japan)
Biennale, Metamorphoses, International Pavilion, Venezia
Ecologie Fluide, Rouen, France
coam, Corrupted Biotopes 2.0, Madrid
Georges Pompidou Centre, Non Standard Architecture, Paris
2003 Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), Hypercatalunya, Barcelona
Walker Art Centre, Out of the Ordinary, Minneapolis (USA)
Atarazanas, Micro-Utopia / San Miguel de Los Reyes, A social project: Sociopolis, Valencia (Spain) Art Biennale, Utopia Station, Water Flux, Venice
Henry Urbach Architecture (HUA), Mosquito Bottleneck, New York
2002 Contemporary Image Centre (CCI), The Habitable Image, Geneva
Museum of Moderne Art (MAM), Hybrid Muscle, Paris
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), In many ways the exhibition already happened, London
2001 Alliance française, Paysages Urbains, Rotterdam
Bienal da Utopia, Cascais (Portugal)
Otras Naturalezas Urbanas, Castello (Spain)
Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Morphing, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Archilab 03, Orleans, France
2000 “Numero Festival”, Moving Mutations, Lisbon
Biennale of Architecture, French and International Pavilions, Venice
L. Stern Gallery, An Oblique Lineage Toward Hypersurface, Los Angeles
Columbia University, Mutations @morphes 3.0, New York
1999 Purple Institute, E-space / génèse, December 10-13, Paris
University of California (UCLA), Mutations @morphes 3.0, Los Angeles
Gallery FOE, Desire, Munich
Architecture Institute (NAI), Incision, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Archilab 01, Orleans, France
“Espace Croisé”, Mutation @morphes 2.0, movies, Lille (France)
1998 FRAC Centre (Funds for Contemporary Art), Mutations @morphes, Orleans, France
“La Table”. “Air de Paris” Gallery, Acqua Alta, Paris
“Aedes” Gallery, Rotterdam, NAI, Transarchitecture 03, Berlin
45 rue de Belleville, Paysage sud, Paris
Fine Art School, Urbanismes, Nimes (France)
1997 Art Centre, Shelter, Trondheim (Norway)
“Quartier du Petit Bard,” Sous le soleil exactement, Montpellier (France)
“Arc en Rêve”, 36 modèles pour une maison,1996-1997, Bordeaux (France)
FRAC Centre Collection, Orleans, France
1996 Biennale of Architecture, curated by Frédéric Migayrou, Venice
1994 Tekne & Metis, God’s Skyscrapers, Athens
1993 Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI ARC), International Architectural Exhibition and Sale, Los Angeles
“Unité Le Corbusier”, Paysage n° 1, Firminy (France)
IFA, Action, Roche François, Lewis Huber, Roubaud Perrin, Paris
1992 Design Center, Youville square, Illusion, Montreal
1991 Biennale of Architecture, French Pavilion, curated by the IFA, Patrice Goulet, Venice
40 architects under 40, IFA, Paris
1989 “Maison de l’Architecture”, les Albums de la Jeune Architecture, Paris
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Exhibitions
2010 Le Laboratoire, Bio-reboot (une architecture des humeurs) / Paris
2009 Transclimatic, Sydney
Transitory objects, TBA21, 2009 -2010, Vienna
Barbican, Radical Natures, London
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Frontiers of Architecture II, Denmark
Confines, Spain, IVAM, Valencia
2008 BIACS3, Biennale, YOUniverse, Seville, Spain
Architecture in the Making, Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria
(Im)material Processes, Biennale, Beijing, China
Anxious Climate, Acadia Event, Minneapolis, USA
Beyond Architecture, International Pavilion, Venice, Italy
SAM, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Instant Urbanism, Basel, Switzerland
‘’Beyond Form’’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Tel Aviv
2007 ‘’New Trend Architects’’, Australie, Melbourne, Australia
‘’New Trend Architects’’, Japan, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
‘’Airs de Paris’’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘’Pan exhibition’’, Italy, SESV Gallery, Florence, Italy
‘’Nature Design’’, Switzerland, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich
‘’Space for your Futur’’, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
‘’Algorithmic Revolution’’, ZKM, Germany, Stuttgart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘’MI(pi)bar’’, Massachusetts
2006 ‘’Pan exhibition’’, Taylor Gallery, New York
New Trends Architects, 2006, Patras, Tokyo, Melbourne, Luxembourg
Beijing Biennal, ‘Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies’’, World Art Museum, Beijing
Tate Modern,” Terra Incognita”, 200 m², London
Vitra, Open House, Hypnosis Chamber 1, Germany
Singapore, Biennale, Hypnosis Chamber 2, Singapore
New-Trend architects, Japan, Patras-Tokyo
“I’ve heard about, dystopia” De Singel, Antwerp
2005 “Ive heard about”, MAM/ARC, Paris
2004 Mori Tower, New experiments from sixties, Tokyo
Node 1, Kanazawa (Japan)
Biennale, Metamorphoses, International Pavilion, Venezia
Ecologie Fluide, Rouen, France
coam, Corrupted Biotopes 2.0, Madrid
Georges Pompidou Centre, Non Standard Architecture, Paris
2003 Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), Hypercatalunya, Barcelona
Walker Art Centre, Out of the Ordinary, Minneapolis (USA)
Atarazanas, Micro-Utopia / San Miguel de Los Reyes, A social project: Sociopolis, Valencia (Spain) Art Biennale, Utopia Station, Water Flux, Venice
Henry Urbach Architecture (HUA), Mosquito Bottleneck, New York
2002 Contemporary Image Centre (CCI), The Habitable Image, Geneva
Museum of Moderne Art (MAM), Hybrid Muscle, Paris
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), In many ways the exhibition already happened, London
2001 Alliance française, Paysages Urbains, Rotterdam
Bienal da Utopia, Cascais (Portugal)
Otras Naturalezas Urbanas, Castello (Spain)
Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Morphing, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Archilab 03, Orleans, France
2000 “Numero Festival”, Moving Mutations, Lisbon
Biennale of Architecture, French and International Pavilions, Venice
L. Stern Gallery, An Oblique Lineage Toward Hypersurface, Los Angeles
Columbia University, Mutations @morphes 3.0, New York
1999 Purple Institute, E-space / génèse, December 10-13, Paris
University of California (UCLA), Mutations @morphes 3.0, Los Angeles
Gallery FOE, Desire, Munich
Architecture Institute (NAI), Incision, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Archilab 01, Orleans, France
“Espace Croisé”, Mutation @morphes 2.0, movies, Lille (France)
1998 FRAC Centre (Funds for Contemporary Art), Mutations @morphes, Orleans, France
“La Table”. “Air de Paris” Gallery, Acqua Alta, Paris
“Aedes” Gallery, Rotterdam, NAI, Transarchitecture 03, Berlin
45 rue de Belleville, Paysage sud, Paris
Fine Art School, Urbanismes, Nimes (France)
1997 Art Centre, Shelter, Trondheim (Norway)
“Quartier du Petit Bard,” Sous le soleil exactement, Montpellier (France)
“Arc en Rêve”, 36 modèles pour une maison,1996-1997, Bordeaux (France)
FRAC Centre Collection, Orleans, France
1996 Biennale of Architecture, curated by Frédéric Migayrou, Venice
1994 Tekne & Metis, God’s Skyscrapers, Athens
1993 Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI ARC), International Architectural Exhibition and Sale, Los Angeles
“Unité Le Corbusier”, Paysage n° 1, Firminy (France)
IFA, Action, Roche François, Lewis Huber, Roubaud Perrin, Paris
1992 Design Center, Youville square, Illusion, Montreal
1991 Biennale of Architecture, French Pavilion, curated by the IFA, Patrice Goulet, Venice
40 architects under 40, IFA, Paris
1989 “Maison de l’Architecture”, les Albums de la Jeune Architecture, Paris
