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- 23 x 30.5 cm
- 224 pages
- 320 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8364-7
- Text in French only
Henri Gaudin is a major figure in architecture in France. Winning the Grand Prize for Architecture in 1989 (a distinction which he refused) and a gold medal from the Academy of Architecture in 1994, he received the Silver Square in 1986 for a social housing complex in Évry-Courcouronnes and in 1994 for the Charléty stadium. He graduated in architecture at the age of 33, after a stint in the merchant navy, where he developed a love of the sea and port construction. Writing and drawing are an integral part of his life and he has always chosen the company of poets, historians and philosophers. In this work, where his drawings play an important role, Henri Gaudin questions the birth of form, black and white, the visible and the invisible, the relationship between interior and exterior. “The house,” he said, “is neither a construction nor a machine, and we must attribute to the one who is going to inhabit it the highest ambitions, act as if it welcomed the most vivid imaginations, the most delicate, the most attentive look, the greatest passions.”