Please enter your surname
Please enter a valid email address
Please fill in your message
Please confirm the captcha

The information provided on this form concerning you is intended for the use of our institution and our technical service providers in order to process your request. By submitting this form, you agree to our privacy policy regarding personal data. In accordance with Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended, and the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, object to, and limit the processing of personal data concerning you. You also have the right to data portability and to define directives regarding the management of your data after your death. These rights can be exercised by contacting us via email at lemonnalisa@inwood-hotels.com. For more information, please refer to the legal notices.

Monsieur Inwood

The cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine

25.09.16

The cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine

Yona Friedman

Dear Readers, 

Designer architect for few years, I have always been interested by the professionals of this field. They are friends of mine, knowledges or people that I know for their reputations. I love to follow their work, and sometime, we collaborate. It is always a pleasure to combine our ideas to a result often impressive, and sometimes far away from the initials drawings. I inform myself, I look and I study, looking for novelty. I impregnate myself with the ones who have created the actual way of creating. This is how I went to the exhibition about Yona Friedman. This former visionary from another period who regularly gave me the inspiration.

The artist beyond the architect

By a beautiful afternoon of autumn, I went to the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, this place which offer two topics that I love. The place currently proposes an exhibition about the masterpieces of Yona Friedman an architect Franco-Hungarian who works for a lot of years. I admire this man who is, before being an architect, an artist. I arrive in the building, ready to discover years of hard work. By the past, this man has worked about the post-war utopia. He wanted to make evolve through his models the independence and the fulfilment of each being.

I walk in the building and rediscover his masterpieces. His work enhances a period where people wanted to be autonomous. The artist has known how to apply ideas of today, at another period. I am touched to see the work of a visionary. I admire the man, the artist and the architect. I inspire myself from him and his artistic fiber. I observe the spatial city as his movable architecture, looking for what he was thinking about during the conception of his masterpieces. 

Few hours later, I go out of the building. Thoughtful, I thought about the artist. I am touched in front of so genius. Sun is setting and wind comes up, sign that autumn is coming, but I stay lost in my thoughts. I let you my friends, think about this quote from Louis Pasteur that I often associate to Yona Friedman: “ Grandeur of human actions is measured to inspiration which makes them born ”.

See you soon!

Back to Archives