Randall Paul Jenkins, Esq. » architecture http://randallpauljenkins.com Esquire?!? Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:23:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Tours Aillaud. http://randallpauljenkins.com/2009/05/18/tours-allaud/ http://randallpauljenkins.com/2009/05/18/tours-allaud/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 19:58:56 +0000 R.P. Jenkins, Esq. http://randallpauljenkins.com/?p=748 The Tours Aillaud are some amazing towers in the suburbs of Paris, and they have an amazing almost “camo-pixel” look to them. I’m sure plenty of Parisian’s hate these things, but I find it’s definitely the beginning of a movement that saw the created environment being the integral theme of the architecture. Elime Aillaud finished this project in the late 70′s and also was responsible for many other post WWII designs that broke out from the norm of very uniform design. I love his use of curves and colour, and that he challenged uniformity even in large scale residential projects.

I’m not sure if Aillaud is considered as a post-structuralist, but to me I see that in his work and his inspirations for it. I’m not sure his motivations were purely post-structuralist, as I think he wasn’t so much rejecting structuralism as he was tired of the systematic approach that was architecture post war. I see much of the same motivations, ideas, and form that lead us into the LA/Santa Monica school and architects like Frank Gehry.

Tours Allaud

You can see some more photos of the Tours and some other Emile Aillaud designed buildings in this Flickr pool.

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