New Book Project on Brutalist Architecture in Paris
A new book on Brutalist Paris by Photolanguage (Nigel Green & Robin Wilson), with Blue Crow Media.
Ivry-sur-Seine Town Centre Reconstruction, 1970-85. Architects: Renée Gailhoustet, Jean Renaudie and Nina Schuch.
Photo: © Photolanguage/Nigel Green
Following on from the Brutalist Map of Paris (2017) the art practice collaboration Photolanguage (of artist and photographer Nigel Green and architectural critic and Bartlett history and theory lecturer Robin Wilson) are working again with Blue Crow Media publishers to produce a new book on the Brutalist architecture of Paris.
The book will survey and re photograph a wide range of Parisian brutalism, from the late work of Le Corbusier to the peripheral new town projects of architects such as Jean Renaudie, Renée Gailhoustet, Gérard Grandval and Michel Folliasson. Its aim will be to trace the impact of the evolving construction and material technologies and changing urban demographics of the post war period, through to the 1980s, as the new languages and programmatic complexities of the Parisian brutalism were defined.
Photolanguage employ a peripatetic method of open attention to site and context, and aim for the publication to add to a long history of topographic writings exploring Paris and its outer regions. This will be a first book for the small publisher Blue Crow Media, who have hitherto focused on architectural maps.
A kick starter video for the project can be found here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blue-crow/brutalist-paris
You can find more about Photolanguage here .
Les Damiers Housing Blocks, La Defense, 1974-6. Architect: Michel Folliasson.
Photo: © Photolanguage/Nigel Green
