CLAUDE PARENT 30-PAGE FEATURE IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006
ONE OF FRANCE’S MOST REVERED ARCHITECTS, CLAUDE PARENT’S FUNCTION OF THE OBLIQUE THEORY, WHICH WAS FIRST DEVELOPED IN THE 1960’S, EXPLORED THE USE OF SLOPES & ANGLES, BECOMING INFLUENTIAL IN THE DESIGNS OF MANY CONTEMPORARY ‘STARCHITECTS’, SUCH AS JEAN NOUVEL, REM KOOLHAAS, & ZAHA HADID. WORKING CLOSELY WITH PARENT [IN COLLABORATION WITH CENTRE POMPIDOU, CITE CHAILLOT, & FRAC CENTRE] TO CONCEIVE AN ‘IMAGINARY CITY’, SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 FEATURES PHOTOGRAPHS USING HIS ARCHIVE MAQUETTES, HIS CURRENT RESEARCH, UNPUBLISHED DRAWINGS & SKETCHES FROM THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, & AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH THE NOW ALMOST 90 YEAR-OLD ARCHITECTURAL PIONEER.
INCLISITE, 1966
ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPE CENTRE THOMSON-HOUSTON, VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, 1966 / ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPE L’INCLISITE, 1966-1968
SPECIAL THANKS TO marie-ange brayer, aurelien rouan, & ludovic lalauze
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