Claude Parent - les inédits

Encouraging the most experimental, alternative, and visionary forms of architecture in an age of conformism is the primary aim of the Claude Parent Prize, which, every two years since 2024, honors architects whose work is transgressive, pioneering, and critical.

The inventor of the oblique function in the late 1960s, Claude Parent distinguished himself on the international stage through his ability to imagine unprecedented—often unsettling—responses to the major challenges of global architecture. It is this iconoclastic spirit that the Prize seeks to promote, while also highlighting how his boldness was embodied as much in his theories as in his architectural plans and his political visions for a reinvented urbanism.

On the occasion of the second award ceremony on June 15, 2026, Galerie 8+4 continues its partnership with the Estate Claude Parent Archives by presenting a previously unseen selection of drawings and ink works produced between the early 1970s and the 2000s. These works and sketches, until now preserved by the family, span three decades of his production: architectural project sketches, drawings of urban situations, illustrative studies for his theoretical writings, and even ink works aimed at reimagining the perception of the external world.

These exceptional and previously unexhibited works undoubtedly constitute one of the most comprehensive tributes that can be paid to this brilliant architect and theorist.