Jean Claude Pondevie was an architect who practiced from 1971 to 2015. He studied at the Écoles des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and Paris. Jean Claude Pondevie designed minimalist architecture, often featuring clean-lined volumes of great complexity that subtly reveal a connection to history and context.
He designed numerous residential and office buildings. He also designed a number of cultural buildings, including the FRAC des Pays de la Loire and the Théâtre d’Ancenis. He was also the winner of the competition for the Tours School of Architecture organized by the Ministry of Culture.
He also created the exhibition design for “The Russian Avant-Garde” at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, as well as that for “Primitive Passion” in the Great Chapel of the Palais des Papes for the city of Avignon and the Pompidou Center.
At the same time, since the 1990s, he has been pursuing a career in photography. His work reflects a quest for simplicity and composition. His framing choices, often highly cinematic, create an ever-present sense of what lies outside the frame and reinforce the feeling of unreality.
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24 x 33 cm
104 pages
47 photographies N&B
Texte : Eric Reinhardt
ISBN : 978-2-36511-066-2