Claude Parent, Architectural Work/Graphic Work
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With the exhibition “Claude Parent, Architectural Work/Graphic Work”, the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine returns to solo architect shows, an exercise that it has not undertaken since the large-scale exhibitions successively dedicated to Christian de Portzamparc in 2007 and Vauban and the Atelier de Montrouge in 2008.
In Claude Parent’s case, the solo exhibit could not however be strictly “biographical”, given that this architect is an important figure in the life of the world.
His architectural activity, which began in 1956 and ended only about 10 years ago, counts almost as much through his production of buildings that have become architectural icons – one need only mention the Drusch house, the Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay church and the Iran Center at the Cité Universitaire Internationale – as through the encounters that marked him, encounters with personalities as varied as André Bloc, Ionel Schein, Nicolas Schöffer, Yves Klein, Sylvia Monfort, Jean Tinguely…
Each of them determined entire stretches, “periods” one might say, of the production of an architect who was and remains a peerless illustrator, as well as a polemicist and caricaturist in his spare time.
So many facets of a body of work that have challenged, even disturbed, his contemporaries. Which explains perhaps that the recognition of Claude Parent has only arrived today, with this large-scale retrospective that the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine is dedicating to him, and which is also the first.
Such recognition first of all honors the growing influence of the man who was first an almost “marginal” avant-garde creator and that today’s events have put back into the heart of current architectural debates. It is for this eminently symbolic reason that Jean Nouvel, whose career began in Claude Parent’s agency, is the exhibition’s scenographer, after having dedicated his project for the Paris Philharmonia to Claude Parent.
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