Deux lettres à un jeune architecte. Grande Grèce The Ancients were therefore interested

The Ancients were therefore interested in the material remains of their antiquity

via the Greeks

subscribers in black suits haunting the wings

c'est une autre planète

An "elite" among others

Deux lettres à un jeune architecte. Grande Grèce The Ancients were therefore interestedIn the spring of 1999, during the competition for the construction of the Beijing Opera House, Paul Andreu was asked to give a lecture on his ideas and work as an architect. Rather than laboriously list his past projects or get lost in idle theories about architecture, he wrote, in a nod to Rilke, a letter dedicated to young architects full of desires and questions. Sixteen years later, he wrote a new letter in the same vein. Published for the first