Marco Bakker
marco.bakker@epfl.ch https://www.bakkerblanc.ch
Citizenship: Dutch
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Biography
Marco Bakker was born in Harlingen in the Netherlands and studied architecture at the TU in Delft with an intermediate year at the EPF in Lausanne. After assistances to Prof. Vincent Mangeat and Kaschka Knapkiewicz, Marco Bakker was from 2003 to 2009 teaching architecture in the Joint Master- Bern, Geneva and Fribourg. Together with Alexandre Blanc they started their office in 1992, first in Fribourg, then Biel and at the moment in Lausanne and Zurich under the name ‘BABL’. In 2009 Bakker & Blanc started to teach as invited professors at the EPF in Lausanne and since 2013 they share here as associate professors the Laboratory for Spatial Manufacturing, MANSLAB.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture
Courses
Studio BA3 (Bakker & Blanc A.)
MANSLAB will concentrate on the question of a programmatical and spatial assembling between different territories. This to provoke a densified physical and metaphysical manufacturing.
Magma and principles
This course will deal with an interdisciplinary research of associative emotional phenomenon and the regulating principles around an architectectural topic wich is of relevance for either theory as practice. This semester: « TEMPUS SESSORIUM » The Momentum of Sitting Down.