Remembering Claude Parent’s unique take on modernist architecture
Remembering Claude Parent’s unique take on modernist architecture
We look back on Claude Parent’s slant on modernist architecture, five years after the iconic architect’s passing, by revisiting Wallpaper contributing editor Emma O’Kelly’s meeting with him in 2007
The late Claude Parent initially set up with architect Ionel Schein, but it was a decade later, when collaborating with his friend, the urban planner Paul Virilio, that his career took off. Pictured: the church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, an archetypal example of the duo’s