This stunning avant-garde house by perhaps lesser-known French architect Claude Parent was built between 1963 and 1965 for artist Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq. This brutalist house stands out with its sloping lines which were avant-garde for the time. It basically features pagoda-like roofs tailored to the hillside surrounding the house. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Located in the village of Bois-le-Roy in Normandy, the house is nestled in the heart of a vast garden and clearly displays Claude Parent's intention to move away from the modernist aesthetic standards of the time. Together with Paul Virilio, Claude Parent was the father of 'fonction oblique' and devised an architecture that was both praised for its dynamism and criticised for its appropriation of a wartime aesthetic. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the house pictured here, the curved roofs rise like waves, and the concrete is left rough. Inside, the equally ubiquitous concrete echoes the sculptural movement of the roofs. Spread over an area of ​​400 square meters, the residence offers a reception area of ​​150 square meters opening onto a terrace, a dining room and a living room with fireplace, all surmounted by a mezzanine hosting an office-library. The rest of the house features a master suite with bathroom and dressing room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Claude Parent (1923–2016) was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and was active as an architect, polemicist and theoretician. He was the first person in France to make a sharp epistemological break with modernism from the mid-1950s onwards. #claudeparent #frencharchitecture #frenchdesign #frenchavantgarde #andreebordeauxlepecq #frenchinteriordesign #brutalistarchitecture #brutalism #1960sarchitecture #paulvirilio