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| A Right To Difference. The Architecture of Jean Renaudie | Buy a book...
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| Author(s): | Irénéé Scalbert |
| Publisher: | Architectural Association Publishers |
| ISBN: | 190290236X |
| Format: | softback |
| 175pp | |
| Price: | £25.00 |
| Review Date: | 10 May 2004 |
| Review: | The most significance presence in French architecture in the 1960s was that of the grand ensembles; the huge housing projects that were steamrollered across the country by the French State, in collusion with major contractors. With May 68, feelings were unleashed, and progressive architects at last managed to get themselves heard. One such architect was Jean Renaudie, who a decade before, had co-founded the Atelier de Montrouge, which had presented study for the new town of Le Vaudreuil. This created new systems of relations between its inhabitants. After leaving the Ateliers, he went on to build several large urban projects: at Ivry near Paris and Givors, south of Lyons. This well-illustrated book celebrates the work of Renaudie, who died in 1981. |