DE BURE, Gilles; — DOMINIQUE PERRAULT,

, Art Book Cologne, 2007, Pictorial softcover, 165 x 210mm., 304pp., all colour illustration. Bilingual edition Eng/Fr. By the time he was 40, Dominique Perrault had already designed France's important new national library, the last of ' great projects ' undertaken by president Francois Mitterand. Since then he counts the velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin, the Aplix factory near Nantes and the Marinsky II in Saint Petersburg among his many projects. Paradoxically, although a prolific international designer and builder, he advocates for the ' dissapearance of architecture '! Committed to ' concepts ' and architecture as manifesto, Perrault excels in games of masks. For him, appearance, disappearance, derealization, dematerialization, crossings and lightening speed make up architecture's very substance. His architecture is one assembled from time, space, tension and energy, which this book attempts to decipher and unveil. New book.