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- 13 x 21 cm
- 176 pages
- 51 drawings
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8398-2
- Text in French only
An iconoclastic character, recognized as a master by many of his prestigious colleagues, Claude Parent paints the portraits of friends and companions in the world of architecture, met during his “fifty years of practice in a disparate, contradictory environment, enthusiastic and passionate, but always surprising.” These texts, written with a lively pen – and, he says, under an irresistible impulse – are incisive, sometimes tender, always funny, and sometimes accompanied by a humorous drawing. In them, the man spares no one, not even himself. Thus we are presented, in alphabetical order, from Tadao Ando to Paul Virilio via Frédéric Edelmann, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, Ionel Schein or Francis Soler, with sixty-nine characters from the architectural scene, shown in an unexpected light, with an infinitely French spirit, just as a La Rochefoucauld or a Saint-Simon might have described them in another century...