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Q3412221

Q3412221 is designed by Jean-Philippe Vassal, dated 2007, located in France. The entry can be read through Contemporary.

Q3412221 is useful as a node in the architectural history network: it links an author, a period, a region, and a building category instead of standing as an isolated image.

Overview

ArchitectsJean-Philippe Vassal
Year2007
LocationFrance
PeriodsContemporary

Historical context

2007 · Contemporary

The question around this work

In globalization and climate crisis, how can architecture respond to image, data, locality, and public responsibility at once?

Globalization, digital tools, ecological pressure, and cultural identity reshape form, production, and public responsibility.

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The contemporary is not an endpoint but a living network where architects, works, regions, and problems keep rewriting one another.

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Spatial Features

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Light Features

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Circulation

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Jean-Philippe Vassal

1954–present

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Contemporary

2000–2030

Related through the same architect

Q131197083

France

Related through the same architect

Musée d’Art Moderne

2000 · France

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