Ionel Schein

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Ionel Schein (* 1927 in Bucharest , Romania ; † December 30, 2004 in Paris , France ) was a French architect , urbanist and author .

Life

Ionel Schein studied architecture and urban planning in Bucharest, Paris, Venice and Brussels .

From 1948 to 1955 Ionel Schein had an office with his Parisian colleague Claude Parent . Ionel Schein became internationally known in 1956 with his design Maison en plastique . The shell-shaped building combined biomorphic structures and (at that time) the most modern building materials, mainly plastic .

In 1965 Ionel Schein founded the Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective (GIAP) together with Yona Friedman , Paul Maymont, Georges Patrix, Michel Ragon, Nicolas Schöffer and later Walter Jonas

The International Architecture Symposium Man and Space at the Vienna University of Technology, held in 1984 and attended by Bruno Zevi , Dennis Sharp , Pierre Vago , Jorge Glusberg , Otto Kapfinger , Frei Otto , Paolo Soleri , Ernst Gisel , Justus Dahinden and others , attracted international attention . a. participated.

Ionel Schein was a committed member of the Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales (CEA) in Paris, which was based on the ideas of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus . It is thanks to Ionel Schein that he invited the philosopher Michel Foucault as a guest to the CEA and thus introduced the heterotopia in architectural circles; the Foucault discussions continued until the 1984 International Building Exhibition in Berlin .

Ionel Schein published numerous publications in international journals. In the exhibition Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005 in the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo , works by Ionel Schein were presented posthumously.

Literature (selection)

  • Ionel Schein: Paris construit. Guide de l'architecture contemporaine. Vincent Fréal et Cie, 1961.
  • Ionel Schein, Max Querrien: Paris construit: guide de l'architecture contemporaine. Vincent Fréal et Cie, 1970. 2nd edition.
  • Ionel Schein, Yvan Christ: L'oeuvre et les rêves de Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Librairie Revel, Lyon 1971.
  • Silvia Berselli: Ionel Schein: Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire. Mendrisio Academy Press, 2015, ISBN 978-8-8366-3143-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Shine, Ionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2004
Place of death Paris , France