Education
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
architect university professor
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
"Inside, you tumbled through a strange room. The floor was so sloped that you couldn"t tell whether what you were standing on was a slanted floor or a wall," Parent has said. Among his most well known works (completed with Virilio) is the Church Saint Bernadette du Banlay in Nevers.
Parent was also an automobile aficionado, and owned many cars including Maserati and Bentley.
House André Bloc, Antibes, 1961 House « Bordeaux le Pecq », 1966 Church Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, Nevers, 1963 to 1966 House Drusch in Versailles French pavillon for the Venice Biennale, 1970 Montceau-les-Mines Townhall, 1973 EDF offices, Libreville, Gabon, 1973 Avicenne foundation (formerly Iranian pavillon in the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris), with Moshen Foroughi and Heydar Ghiai. Cattenom nuclear power plant Vincent-d"Industry High School, Paris, 1988 Carrefour shopping mall, Sens, 1989 Silvia Monfort theater, Paris, 1991 Entertainment center of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, France, 1995 EDF headquarters, Saint-Denis, with Bernard Reichen and Philippe Robert, 1998 Grand prix national de l’architecture (1979).
Quotations: "Inside, you tumbled through a strange room. The floor was so sloped that you couldn"t tell whether what you were standing on was a slanted floor or a wall,".
Académie des Beaux-Arts]
Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (2005)
Member of the Académie d"architecture.