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The architect of the Mucem and of the future international school complex, in his always slightly punk style, is shaking up preconceived ideas about his city. Maintenance.
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AT our arrival in his house on the peninsula of Cassis, he wants to show us a vestige, below the garden, just above the water so blue. A circular trace imprinted in the white rock, a fossil of a rope that one day linked an ancient boat to the earth, a Roman trireme perhaps. For the architect, “a founding stone” of the birth of Marseille, which bears witness to its precedence over Paris. And the opportunity to shoot a first arrow against the “Jacobinism” of the capital, which haunts his speech. Arch-winning (National Grand Prize for Architecture in 2006, Special Grand Jury Prize of the Equerre d’Argent in 2016), reserve officer of the Foreign Legion – to which he pays homage in his Legionary Manifesto, published last November (NBE Éditions… jean marie Hosatte/pictures4 blue – Bouygues Bâtiment Sud-Est/Rudy Ricciotti and Carta & associés architects/Golem Images –
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Whole. Builder Rudy Ricciotti at his home in Cassis in 2021.
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