Open AccessLESSONS FROM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR VILLETTE PARK (PARC DE LA VILLETTE) IN PARIS
Author(s) -
Regimantas Pilkauskas
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of architecture and urbanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2029-7955
pISSN - 2029-7947
DOI - 10.3846/13921630.2006.10697063
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , government (linguistics) , function (biology) , political science , sociology , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , evolutionary biology , biology
In 1982 the French Government initiated an international competition for Villette Park (Parc de La Villette) in Paris. 470 projects from 38 countries were submitted for the competion. One of them was created by the Lithuanians: Augis Gučas, Regimantas Pilkauskas, Robertas Statsėnas and Gediminas Budreika. The winner of the competition was a group of authors from the USA under the leadership of an architect Bernard Tshumi. The project was created according to a postmodernistic rather than traditional park conception providing for an active function as well as a complex urban form of the Park.