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4th International Festival for Architecture in Video
NEW MEDIA, CINEMA AND INNOVATION:
FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO SUSTANABILITY

Florence, December 1999



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Richard Copans
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Dominique Perrault Architecte)
Les Films d'Ici, France 1999, 15'

Dominique Perrault (born in 1953) is today one of the most esteemed French architects. Designer of l'Hotel Industrie Berlier in Paris (1988), for which he received the Constructa 1992 prize. More recently, his design of the French National library the Grand Prix National in architecture in 1993 and the Mies Van der Rohe Pavillion Award in 1997. In 1991 he won the international contest of the velodrome and olympic swimming pool in Berlin. Perrault conceived the work of the architect more as a work of the relation between things rather than on the things themselves, a work on tension, on a series of interactions not only spatials or geometries to the end of stabilizing a new link in architecture between concept (aesthetic) and context (geography).

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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