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Andre Bloc

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Afterwards I carried out fifteen or so projects intended incurred than with a conventional work.
for use in connexion with dwellings of one kind or Therefore it is possible to conceive and to realize
another, although one of these was constructed for a a completely inventive modern architecture, in certain
specific destination. on the south coast of Spain, at circumstances, without reference to the work of the
Carboneras in the province of Almeria. Planned most famous stars in this field: such as Frank Lloyd
utilization of space ensures that those who set up home Wright, Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier. To be able
there enjoy the same facilities as in a traditional home, to evolve such an architecture and to be able to observe
but with an infinitely more varied and subtle use of its possibilities and limits, it would be necessary to have
volumes both inside and outside. The design model was available the technical and economic means; but is our
adapted to the demands of the particular environment. age one that is really interested in experiment in
Construction was carried out almost entirely with sculpture and architecture? In this century, it would
materials found on the spot; this ensured the maximum seem that in the future all the available resources are to
of economy without harming the quality of execution be consecrated to the development of the material
(time taken over building and interior arrangement: satisfaction of the human being no longer interested
two and a half months). in anything but scientific or technical progress.
Another experiment is in progress at the moment, A most disappointing use of leisure time is the
using space more subtly and allowing it a more complex complement of a kind of work that does continually
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Sculpture habitacle. 1964 organization. The construction depends upon a very reduce the individual spirit of initiative.
traditional material: brick. The addition of reinforced
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Maquette for the Sculpture resistance of a particularly freely conceived whole. This contributions to architecture?
habitacie. 1964 has also been an occasion which showed that the Like the sculptor, the architect must or should be a
freedom of the artist was no hindrance to speed in plastic artist with exceptional imaginative qualities.
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Maquette for an habitacle. 1964 building and did not cause higher expenses to be Nevertheless, in most cases he accepts commissions on
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