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CLAUDE PARENT
L'oeuvre construite / L'oeuvre graphique

Price : 45 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-61-3
French edition only

Collection FRAC CENTRE

NEVERS
Architecture Principe
Claude Parent/Paul Virilio

Price : 35 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-62-0
Bilingual edition (Fr/En)

HORS Collection

DOMINIQUE LYON
Construction

Price : 25 €
ISBN : 978-2-910385-64-4
Bilingual edition (Fr/En)

This monograph dedicated to Claude Parent, known as the architect of the oblique function, is published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine. It traces the course of fifty years of innovation, infused with the concepts Parent developed during his incessant research work. Comprising a rich iconography, essays, project analyses (some hitherto unpublished) and excerpts form articles published over the period enable the reader to better apprehend the opus of an architect of outstanding creativity...

An exemplary synthesis of the research pursued by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio in the Architecture Principe group, with the “oblique function”, Saint-Bernadette of Banlay (1966) experiments with a new rapport between man an his environment.  Served by a series of texts and hitherto unpublished images, this book traces the history and impact of a 20th century masterpiece, which looms as a milestone in criticism of modernity...

Trained under Jean Nouvel and Frank O. Gehry, Dominique Lyon founded his own firm in Paris in 1987 with Pierre du Besset. Construction offers him an opportunity to undertake an overview of his projects thus far (whether built or not), from the Maison de la Villette and the headquarters of Le Monde newspaper to the Tangier ferry terminal and the French embassy in Tokyo, by way of the French pavilion for the Seville World’s Fair and the multimedia libraries of Orleans and Troyes...
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Editorial

Founded in 1993, the association Editions HYX, based in Orleans, is supported and developed by a collective made up of artists, architects, art critics, philosophers, graphic designers, historians and people concerned with championing an art that is forever changing.

Editions HYX is a publishing arena for cross-disciplinary exchanges, a hub of contemporary thinking, including a magazine and several collections :

  • Exposé : a magazine of aesthetics and contemporary art
  • Restitutions : architecture, aesthetics
  • Ressources : philosophy, aesthetics
  • Collections du FRAC Centre : Archilab, art and architecture
  • Hors collection : specific publications (Architecture Biennale, Archilab...)
  • Collection O(x) : contemporary art