Edouard Francois
The Parisian architect mixes architecture with ecology: a fashionable fifty-year-old with a diverse background and designer of the offbeat Tower Flower in Paris.
Tower Flower
Edouard François emphasises the meaning of architecture by analysing it in a way that is both elementary and profound. ‘Man can live solely within architecture. He needs a complex building which must be decorated. Only in this way can he be happy.’ Indeed, in François’ view, working with nature offers a welcome complexity: ‘Watch a tree. It has a thousand branches, it moves, grows, changes colour!’ François uses nature to make his designs more complex.
Tower “La Defence”
Hotel Fouquet
Ternes Parking
Edouard Francois was born in 1957 in paris, france. He studied at the academie des beaux arts in paris, and later architecture at the UP1 in paris and at the architectural association in london. In 1998-99 he specialized in the master unit at the ècole nationale supérieure du paysage in versaille, france. Edouard françois has become one of the protagonists of green architecture on an international scene.
School in Meudon Sur Seine
Centre Pompidou Restaurant
His work focuses on matter, context, use, economy and ecology,following the preoccupations of sustainable development. Francois’ european team of architects and urbanists are workingalso on landscape design and graphic design projects.The office is based in paris. Francois became known to the public in 2000 with “the building that grows”, built in montpellier on the banks of the léz and widely publicised by the ministry of culture’s campaign on quality in architecture.
Fashion House
La Voiliere
April 18, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0