Ayers, Andrew.

Jean-Yves Barrier : architect and urbanist = architecte et urbaniste / Andrew Ayers ; foreword, Marc Emery ; [translation into French, Aurélien Vernant].

Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, ©2009.

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

"Attempting to pin down Jean-Yves Barrier and classify his work is a tricky, and perhaps not altogether useful, business, for his whole career has been conducted outside of established doctrines and architectural fashions. Painting and theatre were his first loves, and although he long flirted with architecture and urbanism, his finally going professional happened almost by acci-dent. The unanticipated success of his first two buildings launched a career that has since proved rich and prolific. The types of project he has undertaken in thirty years' activity are extremely varied, including individual houses, apartment buildings, schools, libraries, university buildings, museums, town halls, offices, public spaces and thoroughfares, and even civil-engineering infrastructure. Barrier is a great pragmatism always interested in the specificities of each project and never in the application of >>universal<<, readymade solutions. Indeed a horror of serial-line architecture and doctrinaire approaches characterizes his oeuvre, and helps explain its great variety, as well as the lack of family resemblance among his realizations. Nonetheless, an elegance of style and spareness of vocabulary are always present - although something of a maverick, Barrier does not operate in a vacuum, and a certain rather French design sensibility infuses his work."--BOOK JACKET.

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Barrier, Jean-Yves Catalogs.
Barrier, Jean-Yves

Catalogs.

Barrier, Jean-Yves.

Architect and urbanist
Architecte et urbaniste

Location: Library main 265773
Call No.: BIB 197255
Status: Available