Philippe Prost. Architect. Living memory.
City of Architecture and Heritage| N° d'inventaire | 31394 |
| Format | 24.9 x 30.7 |
| Détails | 200 p., bound |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376661016 |
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine from October 18, 2024 to March 23, 2025.
Winner of the Grand Prix national de l'architecture in 2022, Philippe Prost and his studio have been developing architectural thinking for nearly thirty years, based on the close links between memory and creation. Passionate about military architecture, he began his career with work on the citadel of Belle-Île-en-Mer (1992-2006), built by Vauban.
Transformation is at the heart of his approach, which combines contemporary work, research, and teaching. By choosing the line "no creation without memory," his Studio works at all scales, spanning eras, from the medieval period with the Château de Caen (2020-2025) to the Trente Glorieuses with the Vauban port of Antibes revisited by Guillaume Gillet (2016-2025), passing through the Grand Siècle with the Hôtel de la Monnaie (2009-2017), the stables of the Château de Versailles (2023-2026). And when the challenge is to confront contemporary history, he designs the Ring of Memory at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (2011-2014) in the landscape of the plains of Artois, an elliptical monument that brings together 600,000 names fallen on the field of honor.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine from October 18, 2024 to March 23, 2025.
Winner of the Grand Prix national de l'architecture in 2022, Philippe Prost and his studio have been developing architectural thinking for nearly thirty years, based on the close links between memory and creation. Passionate about military architecture, he began his career with work on the citadel of Belle-Île-en-Mer (1992-2006), built by Vauban.
Transformation is at the heart of his approach, which combines contemporary work, research, and teaching. By choosing the line "no creation without memory," his Studio works at all scales, spanning eras, from the medieval period with the Château de Caen (2020-2025) to the Trente Glorieuses with the Vauban port of Antibes revisited by Guillaume Gillet (2016-2025), passing through the Grand Siècle with the Hôtel de la Monnaie (2009-2017), the stables of the Château de Versailles (2023-2026). And when the challenge is to confront contemporary history, he designs the Ring of Memory at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (2011-2014) in the landscape of the plains of Artois, an elliptical monument that brings together 600,000 names fallen on the field of honor.