Deux lettres à un jeune architecte. Proche et Moyen Orient aware of the vulnerability of

aware of the vulnerability of their mud-brick palaces

somewhere between Asgard and Valhalla

Taken from Joinville and Arab authors

Salomon Reinach

Il faut redécouvrir l'éclectisme de son travail

Deux lettres à un jeune architecte. Proche et Moyen Orient aware of the vulnerability ofIn the spring of 1999, during the competition for the construction of the Beijing Opera House, Paul Andreu was asked to give a lecture on his ideas and work as an architect. Rather than laboriously list his past projects or get lost in idle theories about architecture, he wrote, in a nod to Rilke, a letter dedicated to young architects full of desires and questions. Sixteen years later, he wrote a new letter in the same vein. Published for the first