描述

He was, at less than 40 years old, the architect of the National Library of France, the ultimate of the “major projects” initiated by François Mitterrand. Since then, with, among others, the Olympic swimming pool and the velodrome in Berlin, the Aplix factory near Nantes or even the Mariinsky II in Saint-Petersburg, Dominique Perrault, although advocating the “disappearance of architecture”, has designed many and built around the world. Follower of the “concept”, familiar with architecture-manifesto, Perrault excels in games of masks. For him, appearance, disappearance, derealization, dematerialization, crossings and flashes are the very flesh of architecture. An architecture made up of time, space, tension and energy, which this book sets out to decipher and reveal.