Paul Andreu

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Paul Andreu (born July 10, 1938 in Caudéran near Bordeaux ; † October 11, 2018 in Paris ) was a French engineer , architect and author . Andreu designed around fifty airport buildings in Europe, Asia and Africa. In 2005 he published his first novel (L'Archipel de la Mémoire) . Andreu was also involved with Johan Otto von Spreckelsen in the construction of the Grande Arche in the La Défense business district west of Paris .

biography

Paul Andreu was the son of a high school mathematics teacher. He attended the École polytechnique from 1958 , then obtained his engineering degree from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1963 and finally his degree in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1968. The following year he joined Aéroports de Paris , which manages the 14 Paris airports and airfields, the most important of which are Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle , Orly and Le Bourget . In 1974 he was promoted to chief architect and project manager. He built around fifty airport buildings before becoming a partner of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen. After his untimely death, he completed the Grande Arche in 1989. Andreu hit the headlines when, in May 2004, one of the arches of the passenger hall of Terminal 2E at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport collapsed, causing the partial collapse the hall over thirty meters and killed four people. The causes are not clear.

From the turn of the millennium, Andreu was increasingly active in Asia. He designed a spectacular building with the Chinese National Opera in Beijing, for which he was awarded the contract despite opposition from Chinese architects.

Selection of works

Airport and train station building:

Marine Museum, Osaka , Japan
Chinese National Opera, Beijing
Inside the National Opera, Beijing

Other buildings:

Publications (selection)

Non-fiction

  • Mission Interministérielle de Coordination des Grands Opérations: Architectures capitales. Electa Moniteur, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-86653-041-1 (French)
  • Paul Andreu: La Grande Arche, tête défense, Paris-la-Défense. With Hubert Tonka. Édition du Demi-Cercle, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-907757-08-3
  • Philip Jodidio: Paul Andreu, architect. Foreword by Adrian Frutiger. Birkhäuser, Basel 2004, ISBN 3764370106

Fiction

Awards

Movie

  • Roissy 1st documentary, France, 2009, 26 min., Director: Valéry Gaillard, production: arte France, series: Baukunst, German premiere: October 25, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'architecte Paul Andreu est mort. In: Liberation . October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ Paul Andreu, membre de la section d'architecture. Académie des Beaux Arts , October 12, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ Mark Zitzmann: Phoenix or Soap Bubble? Dispute over the construction of the Beijing National Theater. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 11, 2000, archived from the original on March 16, 2004 ; accessed on October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Philip Jodidio: Paul Andreu, Architect. With a Preface by Adrian Frutiger. (pdf, 67 kB) Birkhäuser-Verlag, May 8, 2007, accessed on October 13, 2018 (table of contents).
  5. ↑ Le bâtisseur sous un toit de mots , Le Figaro, January 29, 2009
  6. ^ Paul Andreu. Académie des Beaux-Arts, May 19, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2018 (French).
  7. ↑ Architecture: Roissy 1. In: arte . August 12, 2009, archived from the original on October 31, 2009 ; accessed on October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Andreu, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Caudéran , France
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2018
Place of death Paris