Adrien fine silver

Adrien Fainsilber (* 1932 in Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache , France) is a French architect and city planner. His main work is the conversion of the slaughterhouse in La Villette , a failed construction project in the 1960s, into a modern technology museum.

Adrien Fainsilber studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen (1958), and graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (1960). Together with his colleague Högna Sigurðardóttir , he took part in the ideas competition for the University of Paris-Nord in Villetaneuse in 1967 with a joint design and took first place.

He worked for the landscape architect Hideo Sasaki in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and studied at the Institut d'aménagement et d'urbanisme de la région parisienne (IAURP). In 1970 he founded his own architectural office. He is a member of the Ordre des Architectes of France and the French Association of Urban Planners, among others.

Works (selection)

1970 Université Paris-Nord , Center Littéraire et Juridique, Villetaneuse
1975 Compiègne University of Technology

1975 Center Scientifique et Polytechnique at the University of Paris-Nord

1981 Center EDF / GDF, Paris La Défense

1981 Évry Hospital Center

1985/86 Cité des sciences et de l'industrie et La Géode in Paris

1992 Museum of Fine Arts in Clermont-Ferrand

1998 Museum of modern and contemporary art in Strasbourg

1998 CHU Purpan Children's Hospital at the University of Toulouse

2001 Palace of Justice in Avignon

2001 Altadis office building in Paris

2002 Alcazar Municipal Library in Marseille

2003–2007 Hospital for Pediatrics and Obstetrics in Lyon

Web links

Adrien fine silver. In: arch INFORM .
Adrien Fainsilber website

Individual evidence

↑ Adrien Fainsilber et Hogna Sigurdardottir-ANSPACH . 1st Prix au concours organisé par l'Education Nationale et la Préfecture de Région pour la création de la ville universitaire du Nord de l'agglomération parisienne. In: Le Carré Bleu . Feuille international d'architecture. tape 5-8 . Paris 1968, p. 1–7 ( digitized version [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Fine silver, Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH	1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache

[1] Adrien Fainsilber et Hogna Sigurdardottir-ANSPACH . 1st Prix au concours organisé par l'Education Nationale et la Préfecture de Région pour la création de la ville universitaire du Nord de l'agglomération parisienne. In: Le Carré Bleu . Feuille international d'architecture. tape 5-8 . Paris 1968, p. 1–7 ( digitized version [PDF]).