Dominique Perrault.
South Acts| N° d'inventaire | 14225 |
| Format | 20 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 119 p, color illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Arles, 2010 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782742787760 |
Dominique Perrault, born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1953, graduated as an architect from the ENSBA (National School of Architecture), then as an urban planner from the Ponts et Chaussées (Ponts et Chaussées). He quickly gained international renown by winning the competition for the François-Mitterrand library (Paris, 1989-1995), then those for the velodrome and the Olympic swimming pool in Berlin in 1992. Architect, urban planner and designer, he favors simple, minimalist structures, empty spaces, buried spaces, and offsets. Transfiguring the architectural landscape, his buildings start from a vocabulary of simple forms, enriched by work on materials that has the effect of multiplying the visual effects. His projects play on the confrontations between plant and mineral, nature and architecture, presence and absence, as for the BNF (French National Library), whose verticality only makes sense if we imagine the central garden buried in the heart of the building. The furniture and lighting he designs are an extension of his architecture: they use the same vocabulary of elementary forms and materials diverted from the industrial world, such as metal mesh. Perrault is probably one of the architects whose work arouses the most debate. His agency currently brings together around sixty architects, designers and engineers, and has three branches (Paris, Luxembourg, Madrid). His main buildings in France are the National Library of France, the Lucie-Aubrac media library in Vénissieux, the Georges-Pompidou Center in Metz, etc., but he has also built in Perpignan, Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Laval, Rezé, Caen, Bordeaux, Metz, Angers…
Dominique Perrault, born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1953, graduated as an architect from the ENSBA (National School of Architecture), then as an urban planner from the Ponts et Chaussées (Ponts et Chaussées). He quickly gained international renown by winning the competition for the François-Mitterrand library (Paris, 1989-1995), then those for the velodrome and the Olympic swimming pool in Berlin in 1992. Architect, urban planner and designer, he favors simple, minimalist structures, empty spaces, buried spaces, and offsets. Transfiguring the architectural landscape, his buildings start from a vocabulary of simple forms, enriched by work on materials that has the effect of multiplying the visual effects. His projects play on the confrontations between plant and mineral, nature and architecture, presence and absence, as for the BNF (French National Library), whose verticality only makes sense if we imagine the central garden buried in the heart of the building. The furniture and lighting he designs are an extension of his architecture: they use the same vocabulary of elementary forms and materials diverted from the industrial world, such as metal mesh. Perrault is probably one of the architects whose work arouses the most debate. His agency currently brings together around sixty architects, designers and engineers, and has three branches (Paris, Luxembourg, Madrid). His main buildings in France are the National Library of France, the Lucie-Aubrac media library in Vénissieux, the Georges-Pompidou Center in Metz, etc., but he has also built in Perpignan, Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Laval, Rezé, Caen, Bordeaux, Metz, Angers…