Maurice Sauzet

Maurice Sauzet (1927 in France -) is a Architecte French.

He studies the Architecture at the special school of architecture of Paris, of which he arises at the 30 years age with the price of the Academy. This teaching was very corbuséen with the image of the modern architecture, radical and calculated Occident.

It accompanies, then his wife, Francine, with the Japan so that she teaches the Stylisme there. Over there, he works two years at Junzo Sakakura Nishisawa, which initiates it with Japanese traditional architecture. This Japanese architect is a strong bond between France and Japan, indeed, he was a disciple of Le Corbusier, with which he worked a few years. Its architecture combines the formal ideas corbuséennes and the Japanese Esthétique.

Maurice Sauzet discovers in this country architecture Bouddhiste Zen. He perceives in these constructions a great faculty to move the direction. The house is not thus a “machine to be lived” but a place or live in Harmonie all the beings of the Nature: inside - outside, architecture - nature, man - environment. The Temple S Bouddhiste S are characterized by a drawn advance, a ceaseless search for framing S of sights, to have always the most beautiful image of surrounding nature, a play of mask to make it possible the Imagination to create the remainder of the Paysage. The dwelling is nothing any more but one succession of spaces, but a coherent whole. Architecture created through its environment, from the interior towards outside. It is not a question any more of placing zones in a Cube, but of drawing the form compared to its contents.

Maurice Sauzet decides on his return in France more particularly to create French dwellings, of Provence constructivement, this while recreating these emotion S Japanese women. Thus the adventure starts. It realizes through research which no architect still explored this way. Certe, unquestionable Western were interested in Japan and some of its benefits, such as for example Le Corbusier and Wright. It is following this discovery that it starts to theorize its lived esthetic and names it “natural architecture”. As a Professor at the school of architecture of Marseilles, it creates a workshop “Spaces lived” or it teaches natural architecture with the collaboration of a Paysagiste, Paul Clerc, of Michelle Coutier and of Jacqueline Barthélémy, painter S. This adventure will last until in 1998, this with depends on the following flights.

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