Title & Author:

The Enhancement of Life / [presented by] Christian de Portzamparc.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1993.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (54 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Rue Des Hautes Formes, Paris. Exterior View -- School Of Dance For Opera, Nanterre. Entrance Facade From North -- School Of Dance For Opera, Nanterre. Site Plan -- School Of Dance For Opera, Nanterre. Residential Block -- School Of Dance For Opera, Nanterre. Plan Of Dance Studios (Right) -- School Of Dance For Opera, Nanterre. North East Corner Of Studios. Opera Populaire, Bastille, Paris -- School Of Dance For Opera, Nanterre. Plan & Section -- Cité De La Musique, Parc De La Villette, Paris. Model Of Whole Project -- Cité De La Musique, Parc De La Villette, Paris. Site Plan -- School Of Music: West Building. Elevation To Avenue Jean Jaures -- School Of Music: West Building. Top: East Facade Behind Covered Way. Bottom: Organ Room From The East -- School Of Music: West Building. Ground Floor Plan -- School Of Music: West Building. Space Outside Group Of Rooms -- School Of Music: West Building. Top: Section. Bottom: Lower Ground Floor Plan -- School Of Music: West Building. View Out From Orchestra Hall -- School Of Music: West Building. Entrance On Avenue Jean Jaures -- School Of Music: West Building. Inside The Entrance On Avenue Jean Jaures -- School Of Music: West Building. Organ Room Dome -- School Of Music: West Building. Inside The Organ Room Dome -- School Of Music: West Building. The East Complex: Poster Showing Whole Site -- School Of Music: West Building. Ground Floor Plan -- School Of Music: West Building. Top: Elevation To Avenue Jean Jaures. Bottom: Elevation To The Park -- School Of Music: View Across Central Patio To Residential Block.

Summary:

The French architect Christian de Portzamparc, born 1944, studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris. Since 1971 he has won many competitions, like the Rue des Hautes Formes in 1975, the Opera Dance School in 1983 and the Cite de la Musique in 1984. His output has been prolific and he has received many awards including, in 1992, the National Award for Town Planning and Urban Art. Charlotte Ellis, writing in the Architectural Review, refers to his "lasting preoccupations with fragmentation and space, transparency and light, plurality and tension". His work is unique in the panorama of French architecture At the end of his talk, adding a few words in French, he says that his architecture's greatest achievement is that it gives people freedom and adds to their happiness, and it is this which spurs him on to do more building.

Subject:

Architectural design France.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural France.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
France.

Added entries:

Portzamparc, Christian de, 1944- narrator.