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Odile Decq Benoît Cornette
An overview of the work of the innovative French architects.
Clare Melhuish
Editions:
Price: USD$35.00
350 points- Paperback
- English
- 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
- 160 pp
- 181 colour illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714837710
- ISBN-10: 0714837717
- 117 Line Drawings
- An overview of the work of French architects Decq (b.1950) and Cornette (b.1953): notable for their innovative use of metal and sophisticated engineering, they are winners of many awards
- Decq and Cornette first rose to international prominence with their administrative and social building for the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest in Rennes in 1990
- Charts the architects' working process in over 20 buildings and projects
- Vibrant, wide-ranging visual material includes the firm's highly original models, sketches and computer renderings
Clare Melhuish is an architectural critic and anthropologist working in the field of modern architecture and cultural identity. She is the author of Modern House 2 (Phaidon, 2000) and editor of Architecture and Anthropology (AD Profile 124, Academy Editions 1996). She has written extensively for the architectural press and other publications since the mid-1980s.
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