Christian de Portzamparc

He remarked, “Architecture seemed to me to be too bureaucratic, and not free enough compared to art; and the modernistic ideals which I worshiped before, seemed to me unable to reach the richness of real life.

[5] De Portzamparc created his agency in 1980, supported by Marie-Élisabeth Nicoleau, Étienne Pierrès and Bertrand Beau, and later welcomed Bruno Durbecq, Céline Barda, Léa Xu, André Terzibachian and Clovis Cunha.

The town is a central principal of his work, developing in parallel and in crossover along three major lines: neighborhood or city pieces, individual buildings and sky-scrapers.

[7] Christian de Portzamparc developed the "open block" as a new urban structure in the 1980s which can be seen today in projects such as the Quartier Masséna – Seine Rive Gauche (since 1995), an entire neighborhood of Paris, and at La Lironde (since 1991), in the south of France, both of which illustrate his master-planning and coordination techniques.

[8] Christian de Portzamparc's buildings create environments wherein the interior and exterior spaces interpenetrate, working as catalysts in cityscape dynamics.