Catégorie
Publié le 15 janvier 2016
DOMUS #998 - Conservare è moderno / Conservation is modern
Parution d’un article de François Chatillon dans le DOMUS #998 - Conserver c’est moderne / en version italien/anglaise
» The restoration work on Le Corbusier’s Cité de Refuge in Paris by the architect and head of Historic Monuments, François Chatillon, prompted him to reflect on the still relatively unexplored territory of the restoration of Modern architecture. We publish here an impassioned piece by him in which he hazards a clear and precise appeal to Vasari’s definition of necessity, convenience and pleasure: conservation is modern or, perhaps, one of the roads to modernity in the near future. »