Drawing Matter is honoured to have recently added to the collection a group of 60 drawings by Claude Parent, which were selected in very generous collaboration with Chloé Parent and the Claude Parent Archives. In the wider context of the collection, we see these drawings as offering unique access to the work of a major French voice in the radical discourse of the period that complements our extensive holdings of Hollein/Pichler (in Austria) and Superstudio/Archizoom (in Italy), all from the same period.
The group mainly consists of study sketches from the 1960s, during the Architecture Principe period, and following its breakup, from 1968 to the early 1980s. These sketches offer particular insight into Parent’s research on the formal, spatial, and programmatic possibilities of Architecture Oblique across a wide range of scales and contexts.
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Possibly studies for the Palais des Expositions in Charleville-Mézières, c.1965–66. Red ballpoint pen on paper, 210 × 220 mm. DMC 3830.46.
Turbosites, Vagues, 1966. Pencil on paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.3.
Habitoit – Habitas, 1966. Pencil on paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.4.
Unknown theatre project, 1970. Ink on thin paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.47.
Unknown theatre project, 1970. Ink on thin paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.48.
Oblique Cities, 1972. Pencil on verso of print, 212 × 297 mm. DMC 3830.17r.
Oblique Cities, 1972. Black felt pen on paper, 210 × 297 mm. DMC 3830.12.
Oblique Cities, 1972. Black felt pen on paper, 210 × 297 mm. DMC 3830.13.
Oblique Cities, 1972. Black felt pen on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.15.
Spirales or Spirales-Ponts, 1972. Black felt pen on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.19.
Les Routes, 1972. Blue felt pen on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.9.
Oblique Cities, 1972. Black felt pen on paper, 210 × 297 mm. DMC 3830.20.
Le Symbole, 1972. Black marker on vellum paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.50.
Oblique Cities, 1973. Black felt pen on light green paper, 320 × 240 mm. DMC 3830.25.
Les nœuds de l’espace, Oblique Cities, 1973. Black felt pen on light green paper, 320 × 240 mm. DMC 3830.28.
Oblique Cities, 1973. Black felt pen on light green paper, 320 × 240 mm. DMC 3830.22.
Logo designed by Claude Parent for his studio, 1973. Tracing wrap around print, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.1r.Concept drawing, PAN “Loisirs” consultation/competition, 1974. Black marker, ink, blue pencil on tracing paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.55.
Le demi soleil, city in the landscape, 1974. Black felt pen on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.38.
Le bateau ivre, city in the landscape, 1974. Black felt pen on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.39.
Sphere retenue, city in the landscape, city in the landscape, 1974. Black felt pen on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 3830.40.
Oblique Cities, 1974. Pencil on paper, 210 × 297 mm. DMC 3830.44.
Structures d’accueil 3, 1975. Felt pen on thick paper, 210 × 297 mm. DMC 3830.45.
We are very grateful to the architect’s daughter, Chloé Parent, for her scrupulous help in preparing this research guide.
