Skip to content

News

MAME, interview with Franklin Azzi

In video : a conversation with Franklin Azzi, responsible for the restoration of building Mame located in Tours, a jewel of industrial architecture of the 1950s . " I find it amusing that a former printing company that specializes in the production of fine arts book is transformed into School of Fine Arts " notes Franklin Azzi. 

The architect was given the rehabilitation of the building, a masterpiece of industrial architecture of the twentieth century, this 1958 building has associated the architect Bernard Zehrfuss (Grand Prix de Rome in 1939) , architect and designer Jean Prouvé and the painter Edgard Pillet . "To transform the building, we had to touch some elements," says Franklin Azzi, which evokes a "surgical intervention". Indeed, "there was originally the idea of flexibility to upgrade this building."

Date