Claude Parent (1923-2016)

Digital Edition: Claude Parent (1923-2016)

Radical, uncompromising, contrary: the father of fonction oblique (together with Paul Virilio) devised an architecture that was both praised for its dynamism and criticised for its appropriation of a wartime aesthetic
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