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
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]).
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SURNAME | Fine silver, Adrien |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect and urban planner |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache |