d e P u i s l’ambiguïté en architecture “It is not possible to live in this age if
“I like complexity and contradiction in architecture… I like elements
you don’t have a sense of many contradictory
which are hybrid rather than “pure,” compromising rather than
forces. Each building has to be beautiful, but
“clean,” ambiguous rather than “articulated,” perverse as well as
cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is
impersonal, boring as well as “interesting,” conventional rather than
already
“designed,” accommodating rather than excluding… I am for messy
an
contradictory
incredible demands.
battery So
yes,
of
seemingly
I’m
definitely
perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in
D
e P u i s
l’ambiguïté en architecture
very contradictory times.”
Rem Koolhaas, The archiTecT planning for The fuTure, CNN WoRld, PéKiN, ChiNe,2009
vitality over obvious unity… I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning… I prefer “both-and” to “either-or,” black and white and sometimes gray, to black or white.”
RobeRt VentuRi, Complexity and ContradiCtion in arChiteCture, MoMa, new YoRk, uSa, 1966
Bérénice Curt Clément séminaire de Jacques Lucan
E.A.V.T M.L.V M.2
Lesnoff
assistant Benjamin Persitz
Paris, T&P hiver 2012
Rocard
Bérénice Curt
Clément Lesnoff-Rocard