In 1967, the financier Jacques Champy, a friend of Claude Parent, had called on him to furnish his offices. The apartment has retained its original interior fittings made by the architect: in the entrance, a bench with ashtrays, a long low cabinet, cupboards, doors and a large wooden rail that supports the lighting and runs into the living room.

Characteristic of the constructive style of Roger Anger, which contrasts with the detextured aesthetic of the curtain wall in vogue in the 1960s, the building presents a sober volume on which the curved surfaces of the balconies create dynamic effects of shadow and light.

In fact, the perception of forms evolves according to the path of the walker, making the building a kinetic object, the place of a sensitive urban experience. Each balcony, like a honeycomb, also allows the notion of human scale to be introduced into the collective.

Architect and theorist, Claude Parent (1923-2016) asserts through his constructions and writings a great formal freedom. Many of his works are real architectural performances, combining new aesthetics and technical innovations.

Many architects are trained in his workshop, including Jean Nouvel, and major figures of international contemporary architecture will be inspired by his work, like Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind or Bernard Tschumi.

Recognized for his avant-garde work, the French section of the Venice Biennale paid him tribute in 1996, the FRAC d’Orléans devoted a first retrospective to him in 1999 and a major exhibition on his constructed work and his graphic work (whose scenography was signed Jean Nouvel was organized by the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in 2009.

Roger Anger (1923-2008) is one of the most prolific architects of his generation since he signed in Paris and its surroundings more than a hundred buildings during the years 1950-1960. His work fascinates by its ability to treat collective housing in a permanent relationship with experimentation, guided by a spirit of synthesis of the arts.

Graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1947, his architectural language is characterized by a purity of forms, graphic games of geometric combinations, a smooth and polished treatment of the material, and by the integration of works of art to residential programs.

He surrounded himself with the architects Pierre Puccinelli, his main collaborator, Michel Loyer, Liliane Véder and Mario Heymann, with whom he signed the iconic 28-storey towers in Grenoble, the tallest housing buildings in Europe at the time, awarded the First International Prize for Architecture of Belgium in 1967. Roger Anger also collaborates with visual artists from the group “l’Oeuf, centre d’étude”.

The richness of his career led him in 1965 to be the architect of the project of the utopian community of Auroville in India. This experimental city, inaugurated in 1968 is designed in the form of a spiral. It is a place of community life, a realized utopia, based on the principles of harmony and peace, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants.