Marc A. Lasserre is recorded as a Swiss student enrolled on the six-month, 1963-64, postgraduate ‘General Course’ run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Studies, in London. His student scheme for ‘High Density Middle Income Housing for Central Bombay’ (produced jointly with colleagues, Tom Mottram and Manuel Camusuli) was published in the AA Journal of June 1964 and bears a marked resemblance to Lasserre’s 1963 winning entry for a major Swiss competition for a housing development at 115 Champs-Migons, on a 25,000m2 site bordering the town of Nyon. Executed c1966, Lasserre’s design consisted of two eight-story slab blocks, raised on piloti, incorporated into a sloping landscape with views of the nearby lake. Little is known to us of Lasserre’s earlier education and his subsequent career, other than the fact that he qualified as an architect at the Ecole d'Architecture de l'Université de Genève in the early 1960s and was living in Vufflens-L-Ville, Switzerland, by 1969.
