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 Richard Copans Berlin, Vélodrome olimpique (Dominique Perrault Architecte) Les Films d'Ici, France 1999, 15' The series Les Mots de l'Architecte was a simple idea of Richard Copans. An architect speaks and designs. It is neither a portrait nor a biography. It is rather an attempt to approach architectonic thought, the concepts with which architects work - site, territory, form, function, light, material, the city, the monument, etc. The first of a series of six, this film, dedicated to Dominique Perrault, presents to us one of the two or three most brilliant French architects: an energetic man, playful, cheerful, determined to go beyond the idea that the form is that which comes first. With a strong interest in the process of construction, Perrault always sought to make architecture "disappear" in his attempt to create passages rather than constructions. Richard Copans was born in 1947 and studied at IDHEC. He is the founder and coordinator of Films d'Aujourd'hui since 1984. In addition, he is a producer of full-length films as well as documentaries and a director of photography. Since 1992, he has edited with Stan Neumann, the series Architectures seen on the French-German channel Arte. Since 1998 he has worked on the series Les Mots de l'Architecte, that rather than presenting a personality or a monograph, instead renders the basic concepts of architecture in a manner more familiar to the public at large. |
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