Improvisation Search path

Each project is an adventure for me to the project I have ever designed, which would be the culmination of my work. When the orchestra begins a theme and I am preparing to do a "chorus". I feel the same sense of unknown, as before a sketch, a sketch on a blank page or some improvised words. That same feeling of pleasure that goes

   An architect can not be improvised. In my work, the architect synthesizes the data, eliminates unexpected, because it builds a building lasting the test of time. Conversely, the art project contains an element of risk, unknown, research to overcome the limitations already reached. The reference to improvised music is very instructive. She tells you that improvisation is not easy, it requires long and patient preparation work and requires a perfect mastery of his means. There is the theme that we must know well, Monk said: "To improvise, you must know the subject very well know the theme!" The theme is the structure, it is the rule, improvisation, c 'is the path you created spontaneously around the theme. Gestures random artists, be they of Pollock dripping or folds of Hantai, improvisational music is also a result of intense reflection, preparation almost mystical.

   Architectural work requires mental preparation identical to that of improvisation and the project is built with a stroke so rapid after a long, slow maturation. During this period of research, I identify with the characters I'm going to live in my architecture.Then, when the line is drawn, the project's development proceeds in a rational manner, using knowledge and technologies that are available. In developing, emerging ideas also comes from exchanges, confrontations, contact with the material. Improvising architecture is focused mentally practice a profession in an idea that just once, without being programmed. Improvising is to seek within itself a power to create a new life.

Jean-Philippe Pargade

Graduate architect dplg (up 6) in 1972
Graduate planner from the National School of Bridges and Roads in 1973

2011Publication of the ouvrage Architectures subjectives/Subjective architectures, text by Michèle Leloup and Christophe Leray, Archibooks, Paris

2007Publication of the ouvrage Multicolore, text from Sebastian Redecke, Ante Prima/AAM éditions, Paris

2005Publication of the ouvrage Mutations, une ambassade de France à Varsovie, text from François Lamarre, Ante Prima/AAM éditions, Paris

2003Gold Medal of the International Academy of Architecture for the center hospital of
Mantes-la-Jolie

2001Member of the International Academy of Architecture in Paris

1997The architectural firm Jean-Philippe Pargade moved 36, boulevard de la Bastille, 75012 Paris

1993Price County Architect from Îlle-et-Vilaine for the central library Loan to Rennes

1991Caroline Rigaldies integrates the agency Jean-Philippe Pargad

1990Selection of the mission of major projects for the central library loan, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine

1986Award winners of habitat for the islet of the Patriarchs, 75005 Paris

1985Architect-County Councilof the Ministry of of Works, Housing andTransport Architect-County Councilof the Ministry of of Works, Housing andTransport

1988
80Création de l’agence d’architecture Jean-Philippe Pargade, 24, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
Association with Robert Grosjean, then with Gerard Viard

1977Contest of PAN, 10th Session, Department of Public Works

1975
73Cooperation in Cameroon
Adviser seconded to the Ministry of Equipment
22/01 : Birth of Julie Pargade

1968
67Workshop Lemaresquier, Paris

1967
65Workshop Claude Ferret, Bordeaux

1965National School of Fine Arts, Bordeaux