DOMINIQUE PERRAULT, ARCHITECT — AEDES GALLERY

Published to mark the exhibition held in 1996 at the Aedes Architecture Forum, this book presents the work of French architect Dominique Perrault through a selection of his most notable projects and realisations. Plans, photographs and critical essays reveal the principles that underpin his architecture — formal restraint, a focus on materials, and the close relationship between building, landscape and urban space. This exhibition catalogue offers an insight into the approach of an architect whose work, exemplified in particular by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has established itself on the international contemporary architecture scene.