Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio is a Urbaniste French and a philosopher, born in 1932 with Paris of an Italian communist father and a Breton catholic mother. Child, it saw the bombardments of Nantes and will keep of it an interest for the things of the war and a concern for the brittleness of the urban world.

After a training of glass Master that it makes while following the courses of Vladimir Jankélévitch and Raymond Aron to the Sorbonne, it collaborates with Henri Matisse in Saint-Paul-with-Vence and with Georges Braque with Varengeville.

In 1963, it founds with Claude Parent, the group Architecture Principle , then publishes a first proclamation for a architecture obliques .
Professor with him with the special School of architecture to Paris, they formed in their workshop several great names of the French contemporary architecture, like Jean Nouvel. Its teaching with the ESA evolves to town planning and the architecture which it approaches at the same time like a vast system of networks in question to categorize the objects, then to balance the hierarchy by their speeds. It had as a friend Georges Perec when it publishes Espèce of spaces , Ivan Illich before it publishes Énergie and équit , Michel de Certeau before it publishes Art to make , Jean Baudrillard.

Activities

Professor of architecture, foreman (since 1969), then directing of the special School of architecture of 1972 with 1975.
Member of the steering committee with J. - M. Domenach, of the review Spirit (of 1969 with 1977).
Member of the editorial boards of the reviews Common Causes and Cross-pieces (National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou) (of 1975 with 1984).
Directing of the collection " Space critique" with the editions Galileo (since 1974) (20 titles: of Georges Perec with Jean Baudrillard and Jean Duvignaud).
Chairman of the board of ESA (1990).

Paul Virilio is also:

Founding member of the interdisciplinary strategic study and research Center of peace with Alain Joxe, House of the Social sciences (in 1980).
Member of the Quality circle for the construction of the center of Lille: TGV - Eurotunnel with the architect Rem Koolhaas.
President of the jury of architecture for the symbol France - Japan with Isozaki, Ando, Gaudin, Portzamparc, Montès and Quéau.
Consultant-expert for the mission: the European Foundation for the cities and the architecture (FEVA) chaired by François Barred (a study for the realization of the future Museum of the city and the architecture of Lille).
In addition to its activities of teacher with the ESA and writer, Paul Virilio takes part in very many newspapers and publications, as well in France as abroad: Release , the other Newspaper , the Books of the Cinema , El Païs (Spain), Die Tageszeitung (Germany), The New Statesman (Great Britain), Artforum (the United States), the Illustrazione Italiana (Italy), Gaya Scienza (Japan), etc
Since Spring 1990, Paul Virilio is also consultant-expert with the TRUNKS (French Company for the exposure of Seville). House of France with Governed Debray.
It supports, since its creation in 2001, the funds associative Non-Violence XXI.

Achievements

Church Holy-Bernadette with Nevers , with Claude Parent, 1966.
Research center aerospace of Thomson-Houston with Vélizy-Villacoublay, 1969.

Distinctions

National Grand Prix of architectural criticism (1987) decreed by the ministry for the Equipment, Housing, Town and country planning and Transport.

Publications

Bunker Archeology : study on the European military space of the Second world war, ED. CCI, 1975.
the Insecurity of the territory : test on contemporary geopolitics, ED. Stock, 1976.
Speed and Politique : test of dromology, ED. Galileo, 1977.
ecological popular Defense and fights , ED. Galileo, 1978.
Esthetic of disappearance : test on the cinematism, ED. Balland, 1980.
Logistic of perception, Books of the Cinema , ED. star, 1984.
space criticizes : test on town planning and new technologies, ED. Christian Bourgois, 1984.
the negative Horizon : test of dromoscopy, ED. Galileo, 1985.
the Machine of vision : test on the novel methods of representation, ED. Galileo, 1988.
polar Inertia : test on the control of environment, ED. Christian Bourgois, 1990.
the Screen of the desert : chronicle of war, ED. Galileo, 1991.
the Insecurity of the territory , ED. Galileo, 1993.
the data-processing Bomb : test on the consequences of the development of data processing, ED. Galileo, 1998.
Speech on the horror of art , discussions with Enrico Baj, libertarian Workshop of creation, 2003.
Art as far as the eye can see , ED. Galileo, 2005.
the University of the Disaster , ED. Galileo, 2007.

Exposures

the Function obliques
Bunker Archeology , in 1975. Museum of decorative Arts. Center Industrial Creation: ten years result of study of the European military architecture.
What arrives , Fondation Cartier, December 2002 in March 2003.

See too

External bonds

Bibliography on '' Virilio.de ''

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