Contemporary architecture in dialogue with environment

Description

Roland SCHWEITZER, Arsign Editions, 2014, 32 x 3.8 x 24 cm, 467 pages, fine cloth binding, illustrated dust jacket, Preface by FRANÇOIS CHASLIN, 1152 illustrations. The author, architect, urban planner and educator, has inscribed his architectural creation over 60 years in a continuum taking into account the evolution of building art from prehistory to the present day. He draws inspiration from the past, notably vernacular architecture worldwide, extensively studies traditional Japan, incorporates contributions from the four great masters of the 20th century, and seeks contact with natural or urban environment in a state of balance and readability of built space components. In human history, architecture is the fruit of a crystallization in progress whose beginning and end are inseparable. Roland SCHWEITZER, far from solitary objects, contributes to a contemporary architecture that calls for participation by fostering man-environment dialogue.