Jacques Couëlle (1902–1996) was a French architect, whose work was marked by the movement of architecture, sculpture.
Contents |
Jacques Couëlle is a self-taught architect. Uncategorised, he remains on the margins of major movements in architecture and in particular the Modern Movement. In 1946 he founded the Research Centre of natural structures which are made "studies and applications to human habitat natural phenomena and architecture of instinct, the architecture of plants and organic bodies. Nicknamed "the architect of billionaires," he has made exceptional homes.
The architecture of Jacques Couëlle, with its sculptural forms of concrete designed and carved, evokes the movement of architecture-sculpture born after the war. Breaking with the Modern Movement plebiscite which the right angle, the architects of this movement to build houses and organic sculptural forms, like houses ovoid Antti Lovag, a student of Jacques Couëlle, as the palace Bulle (1975), owned by Pierre Cardin or house Rouérou (1989) in Tourettes-sur-Loup.
The specificity of the architecture Couëlle is its relationship to nature: its houses fit perfectly into their natural environment because they borrow their forms. They are "home-landscape." For the architect, "It does not create volumes, inside offer the man a happy space, and, outside, is beautiful: it is necessary that the volume integrated environment." This relationship with nature is associated with organic architecture of Antoni Gaudí, like the famous Park Güell (1900–1914) in Barcelona where the paths carved into the slope as caves follow the contours of the land.
Eccentric character, was a friend of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. For his artistic merits, he was awarded the Legion of Honour at the French Academy.