National Architecture Days 2020

Meeting with David LIAUDET about Claude PARENT Tours of the Espace Bézard - Le Corbusier architecture trail
Built by Rem Koolhas' agency OMA AMO for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014 as part of the exhibition Elements of architecture, La Rampe by Claude Parent allows you to experience and put into practice the Oblique Function theory that the architect developed with the town planner and philosopher Paul Virilio.

"(...) A tireless promoter of this revolution, and a great architectural critic, Claude Parent experimented with the Oblique Function revolution for himself and his family by converting his entire flat into an Oblique Function. The floor was turned upside down, ramps and seats were raised, the relationship between furniture and space became indeterminate, and pinched spaces appeared, putting residents and visitors to the test. In the reality of his life, Claude Parent and his family were able to experience the reality of a utopia and become aware in their muscles of the relevance of this new movement, inventing in a way a new choreography of everyday life. (...) During the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014), organised by Rem Koolhaas' agency OMA AMO, part of his flat in Neuilly (1973-1974) was reconstructed on an exact scale. It was a fitting return to Venice, since Claude Parent headed up the French pavilion there in 1970. After being shown at one of Claude Parent's most recent exhibitions at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Le Mans (Obliques, 2016), this ramp can now be seen here, so that everyone, in the freedom of their own body, can experience the Oblique Function (...)". Extract from David Liaudet's presentation text

David Liaudet is a teacher at the Beaux-Arts in Le Mans, a member of the Brutalist Vigilance Committee sponsored by Claude Parent, and has been drawing illustrations for the Larousse dictionary since 1994. He also writes several architecture blogs, including "Architectures de cartes postales". http://archipostalecarte.blogspot.com/A goldmine for any architecture enthusiast.