Research on Beauty: Vortrag von Kundoo

Research on Beauty | Roger Anger’s Response to High-rise Housing Trends in
Post-war Paris

Ort | Raum 211 a

Vortrag von Anupama Kundoo im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe “Built and Un-built Utopias - The Politics of Conversions” veranstaltet vom Institut für Kunst und Architektur im Wintersemester 2010/11.

Roger Anger was one of the most prolific French architects of the 50s and 60s. Sculptural plasticity and individualized timeless modernity identify his unique architectural language. This is amply demonstrated by the more than 100 buildings designed by his office in Paris alone. His three 28 storey housing towers in Grenoble, the highest residential buildings in Europe at the time and recipient of the Belgian Premier Prix International d’Architecture in 1967 remain today as an icon of the city and a spectacular example of his work. Roger Anger was appointed Chief Architect of Auroville, a utopian city in South India calling for visionary planning, the site where in the last decades the essence of his work as an architect, painter and sculptor was concentrated.