Jacques Couëlle
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Jacques Couëlle was a French architect, whose work was marked by the movement of architecture, sculpture.
The architecture of Jacques Couëlle, with its sculptural forms of concrete
designed and carved, evokes the movement of architecture-sculpture born after the war. Breaking with the Modern Movement plebiscite which the right angle, the architects of this movement to build houses and organic sculptural forms, like houses ovoid Antti Lovag, a student of Jacques Couëlle, as the palace Bulle (1975), owned by Pierre Cardin or house Rouérou (1989) in Tourettes-sur-Loup.
The specificity of the architecture Couëlle is its relationship to nature: its houses fit perfectly into their natural environment because they borrow their forms. They are "home-landscape." For the architect,
"It does not create volumes, inside offer the man a happy space, and, outside, is beautiful: it is necessary that the volume integrated environment."
This relationship with nature is associated with organic architecture of Antoni Gaudí
, like the famous Park Güell
(1900–1914) in Barcelona where the paths carved into the slope as caves follow the contours of the land.
Eccentric character, was a friend of Pablo Picasso
and Salvador Dalí
. For his artistic merits, he was awarded the Legion of Honour at the French Academy.
Biography
Jacques Couëlle is a self-taught architect. Uncategorised, he remains on the margins of major movements in architecture and in particular the Modern Movement. In 1946 he founded the Research Centre of natural structures which are made "studies and applications to human habitat natural phenomena and architecture of instinct, the architecture of plants and organic bodies. Nicknamed "the architect of billionaires," he has made exceptional homes.The architecture of Jacques Couëlle, with its sculptural forms of concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...
designed and carved, evokes the movement of architecture-sculpture born after the war. Breaking with the Modern Movement plebiscite which the right angle, the architects of this movement to build houses and organic sculptural forms, like houses ovoid Antti Lovag, a student of Jacques Couëlle, as the palace Bulle (1975), owned by Pierre Cardin or house Rouérou (1989) in Tourettes-sur-Loup.
The specificity of the architecture Couëlle is its relationship to nature: its houses fit perfectly into their natural environment because they borrow their forms. They are "home-landscape." For the architect,
"It does not create volumes, inside offer the man a happy space, and, outside, is beautiful: it is necessary that the volume integrated environment."
This relationship with nature is associated with organic architecture of Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.Much of Gaudí's work was...
, like the famous Park Güell
Park Güell
Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914...
(1900–1914) in Barcelona where the paths carved into the slope as caves follow the contours of the land.
Eccentric character, was a friend of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
and Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
. For his artistic merits, he was awarded the Legion of Honour at the French Academy.
Achievements
- Bastide Saint-François (1925–1936) in the Alpes-Maritimes
- Villa Goupil in Chevreuse (78)
- Village Castellarras-le-Vieux (1955–1963) on the Côte d'Azur
- Hotel Cala di Volpe (1962) in Sardinia
- The House stones at Louveciennes (1994) Brochure