Christian Hauvette, the French architect who won the Grand Prix national de l'architecture in 1991, died in hospital of a heart attack.
French architect Christian Hauvette died recently of a heart attack. Born in Marseilles on November 30 1944, he studied with Jean Prouvé and was awarded the Grand Prix national de l'architecture in 1991, an award presented by the French Culture Ministry for his career in architecture.The current culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, noted that Christian Hauvette saw architecture as a linguistic game, in which he never stopped describing, commenting and analysing. For Hauvette, the basic elements of architecture were not only walls but words.
His projects include many public buildings, especially school buildings, appointments received after winning the award for public architecture in 1986 from the Mission interministérielle pour la qualité des constructions publiques (MIQCP), such as Louis-Lumière national school in Noisy-le-Grand (1989), the national school of engineering in Mans (1999) or, more recently, the prefecture of the region of Guyane in Cayenne.
Agnese Bifulco
Images: courtesy by HAUVETTE & ASSOCIÉS
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