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Christian de Portzamparc (9732 words) |
 | Highly respected by architectural cognoscente throughout the world, this relatively young French architect explains that he was "a designer who painted before he decided to study architecture." While he still paints, he says, "I am not a painter or sculptor, yet." He is however a frequent lecturer and author. |
| The point made is part of his concept that a new monumentality is emerging in architecture, one that is not based on the mass of a structure, but on the concept of space, form and voids between. |
| His architecture, with its complex, subtle volumes, its skillful use of full and empty spaces, of lights and shadows, gives life to a new urban space, a new dialogue with the city, and with a special kind of dream and poetry. |
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