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Rue de Paris

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Rue de Paris is the most prominent street in St Denis, the capital city of Reunion. Its architectural ‘elements’ reference traditional ideas of beauty in architecture: ornamental columns, garden landscapes, wrought iron gates and balustrades; decorative friezes and a powerful symmetrical arrangement where the street is aligned with two very important vistas. Owing to its prominence, both historically and architecturally, it seemed to me to be an appropriate location to experiment with ideas of beauty-in-architecture and the role of seduction in processes of acculturation. My aim throughout is to seduce the user/reader into accepting and incorporating ‘otherness’ into the beauty lexicon, thereby claiming space for the créole whose image has historically been suppressed.

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Intervened Site Rue de Paris