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Item Details
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ODILE DECQ, CORNETTE BENOIT
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| By: |
Clare Melhuish, Frederic Migayrou |
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Hardback |
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£29.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0714833436 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780714833439 |
| Publisher: |
PHAIDON PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 August, 1996 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette won 10 awards for their building, the Banque Poulaire de l'Ouest in Rennes, which opened in 1990. This book charts the architects' working process in over 20 buildings and projects, featuring their highly original models, which use colour as a coding system. |
| Synopsis: |
Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette first rose to international prominence with their administrative and social centre buildings for the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest in Rennes in 1990, which has won 10 architectural awards. Based in Paris, they featured in the French "40 under 40" exhibition in 1990 and have since been successful in many European competitions, recently completing two housing schemes in Paris, and working on large-scale urban projects such as their 1994 commission to design the masterplan for the revitalization of the docks at Paris' Port de Gennevilliers. Although Decq and Cornette have been variously described as post-modernist, deconstructionist and high-tech, their architecture is difficult to categorize: the distinctive hallmark of their architecture is their use of metal, for its precision, and sophisticated engineering techniques. This book charts the architects' working process in over 20 buildings and projects, featuring their highly original models, which use colour as a coding system for materials and structural elements, and have an architectural significance in their own right. |
| Illustrations: |
100 colour and 80 b&w illustrations, 100 line drawings, bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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