Claude Parent Manifesto

Paris noyée, Londres au fond de la Tamise, quelle architecture?

'When I was 27, I only drew squares. Impeccable. But in the middle of the square, I was alone …
you’re always shut in. So I decided to do slopes. This makes you free …
That is the fonction oblique. This happened in 1964.'
'2050: Only the top floor of the Eiffel tower is above water. 2500. Nothing is left. Fish swim through the Arc de Triomphe. They love it. It’s the same thing in London.'
'A structure, without doing architecture, made without thought, without streets or squares, rolled out like a carpet, on top of the old city which plants would be grown.'
Then there would be huge machines, which would make random incisions into the surface, revealing the structure below. People would take it in turns to be the machine operator.
This incision had to be oblique so that there would be communication between the bottom and the green surface.