Claude Parent. The plans of an architect
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Architect, theoretician, draughtsman, polemicist, Claude Parent is a figure in the history of 20th century architecture who has cultivated a certain singularity. He was the first in France to make a profound epistemological break with modernism. Producing numerous articles, books, drawings and projects, he sought to defend his “designs” in order to invite us to rethink our living environment.
Author: Audrey Jeanroy
Preface: Dominique Perrault
Publication date: 10/11/2022
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Summary
of the book
His meeting with Paul Virilio gave rise to the adventure of the "oblique function", i.e. the search for the use of the inclined plane in the structuring of space. Demanding, critical, provocative and fiercely determined, Claude Parent has never ceased to propose places of contradiction that generate doubt, anxiety and instability, excluding any passivity in the face of architecture. His protean production, tackling all programmes, including the most unexpected ones such as supermarkets and nuclear power stations, is considered here in a biographical continuum.
Through the complexity of this character, a whole society is described, with its still vivid attachments to the past, its fantasies, its ambiguities, the place occupied by the artist-creator, the providential man, the one who by a gesture - architectural and urban - hopes to save the world.
Specifications
Publication date : 10/11/2022
Authors : Audrey Jeanroy
Foreword : Dominique Perrault
Publisher : Parentheses Eds
Format : 17cm x 24cm | Number of pages : 384
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