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August 1997 European workshop
on urban fringe zones, Frontignan
Janvier-février 1997 Participation
in the Constantini Museum contest, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Juillet 1998 Participation in the contest
for the rehabilitation of the Théâtre des Treize
Vents, Montpellier
Septembre 2000 Post-graduate degree
in architecture, Montpellier
Octobre 2000 M.C.A.O post-graduate degree,
Marseille
Février-mars 2001 Participation
in the CIMbéton 5th session and Europan VI contests
27 years old
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"My father taught me to look towards the sky. I believe
that architecture is quite simply this".
Must one kill one's father to make one's way? Son of an architect,
Daniel Andersch, who is incidentally Franco-German by his father,
wished to become an architect as well. It has taken him no less
than three schools, Montpellier, Berlin, and Lisbon, to feel up
to the task. To caricaturize, in Germany you draw a line and then
decide whether it is in steel or wood...In Portugal, you're asked
why you didn't make it red or curved. As for France, not so great:
too theoretical. After this tour of European horizons, Daniel
Andersch imagined reconverting an old Citroen garage, abandoned
for ten years in the heart of Montpellier, into a center for exhibiting
and creating today's art.
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He illicitly entered the building, an inexhaustible object of
real-estate speculation, to observe its pathologies and grasp
the layout. These pathologies used to justify destruction. There's
a lack of consideration for
neglected things, an absence of recent historical conscience.
While the father rehabilitates barns or farms in the Provençal
back country, the son examines the industrial past. "I
noticed that I enjoyed working with everything bearing a trace
of history". In Marseilles, he recently participated
in the Europan project, a European contest for the development
of the Arenc district, a city limit. " Europan and my diploma
at Sarajevo represent the same problematic too often summed up
as "tear down and rebuild with pretty facades".
Each place bears the traces of what was there before and they
must be taken into account.
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