Antti Lovag
Antti Lovag (* 1920 in Budapest , Hungary , † September 27, 2014 in Tourrettes-sur-Loup , Alpes-Maritimes , France ) was a Hungarian architect and habitologist who specialized in the construction of Maisons Bulles (spherical houses) and organic architecture specialized.
Life
Lovag was the son of a Finnish mother and a Russian father. He began his studies in Stockholm in Sweden in the field of shipbuilding before he went to Paris in 1947 and attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (ENSBA). Here he learned in particular from Jean Prouvé .
In the early 1960s, Lovag called himself a habitologist and, together with other architects such as Pascal Häusermann, Jean-Louis Chanéac and Jacques Couëlle, experimented with forms that were inspired by nature. Living spaces should be created that were designed naturally and in harmony with the structure of the human body. The furniture in the houses should also adapt to the curves of the buildings.
Realized drafts (selection)
- 1971: Maison Bernard of the industrialist Pierre Bernard from Lyon in Port-La-Galère
- 1975 to 1989: Palais Bulles de Pierre Cardin , built in the Massif de l'Esterel near Théoule-sur-Mer
- 1986 to 1989: Maison Gaudet in the same place. The complex was registered as a monument by the French Ministry of Culture in 1998.
There are other buildings on the Côte d'Azur that the architect designed:
- Cannes : Maison des Jeunes Picaud
- Nice : Complexe astronomique du collège Valeri
- Saint-Raphaël : Complexe ludique du collège de l'Esterel
- Plateau de Calern, department Alpes-Maritimes : Laboratoire d'interferometry à l'observatoire astronomique de la Côte d'Azur
literature
- Alfred Werner Maurer : Antti Lovag, - spherical structures in the rocks above the French Côte D'Azur in Tourettes-sur-Loup Philologus-Verlag, Basel 2007.
- Roche Pierre: Antti Lovag Habitology . France Europe Editions, Nice 2010, ISBN 978-2-8482-5238-4 .
Web links
- Pierre Cardin's house fr.
- Excerpt from the “Palais Bulles” from the TV report “Houses turned upside down” from the ZDF documentary series “Menschenskinder” by Wolfgang M. Ebert, 1981.
- Live like Lovag
- Dècès de l'architecte Antti Lovag, concepteur des “maisons-bulles” , grasse.maville.com, September 27, 2014
- Andrea Eschbach: The future is round , futuristic buildings by “Habitologist” Antti Lovag in southern France, a work biography in the NZZ from July 9, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ about life: 2010 - Odyssey in the living room in: FAZ from September 11, 2010, pictures and times, p. Z4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lovag, Antti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 2014 |
| Place of death | Tourrettes-sur-Loup , Alpes-Maritimes department |