Anne Lacaton

Anne Lacaton studied at University of Bordeaux. The recorded working language is French. Work by Anne Lacaton is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago. Distinctions recorded are Heinrich Tessenow Medal, Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent, Pritzker Architecture Prize and honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp.

She was born in Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière on 2 August 1955. Lacaton graduated in architecture from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux and received a master's degree in urban planning from the University of Bordeaux in 1984. Lacaton often visited Vassal in Niger, who worked there as an architect and town planner; they built their first joint project, a straw hut.

Lacaton was visiting professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (2007–13); EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; 2004, 2006, 2010–11 and 2017–18); University of Florida (2012); State University of New York at Buffalo (2013); Pavillon Neuflize OBC-Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013–14); and Harvard University. Lacaton was appointed as Associate Professor of Architecture & Design at ETH Zurich in 2017. Her academic teaching focuses on an ideological and socio-political approach to architecture. Lacaton's designs and constructions support human use rather than iconic display, concerned with the people involved. Her designs aim to promote user participation, such as residents in areas undergoing redevelopment. Anne Lacaton served as a jury member for The Daylight Award in 2020 and 2022.

Lauréats des Albums de la Jeune Architecture, France – 1991 Grand Prix National d'Architecture Jeune Talent, France – 1999 Erich Schelling Award − 2006 Fondation Erich Schelling, Karlsruhe Award "Sustainability and Residential Innovation", City of Madrid – 2006 Royal Institute of British Architects International Fellowship in 2009. Grand prix national de l'architecture in 2008 Paris, France Equerre d'Argent Award (with Frederic Druot) – 2011 Paris Daylight & Building Components Award – 2011 Design of the year, architecture category (with Frederic Druot) – 2013 Rolf Schock Prize in the Visual Arts in 2014 Life Time Achievement – Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa – 2016 Académie de l'Architecture France – Gold Medal – 2016 Simon Architecture Prize/ Fondation Mies Van der Rohe – The Living Places (with Frederic Druot) – 2016 Heinrich Tessenow Medal in 2016 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (with Frederic Druot) in 2018 Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019 Großer BDA Preis (BDA Grand Prize) in 2020 for their life's work Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2021 Soane Medal in 2023 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2025