(F) As author of the IESEE, an engineering school at Marne-la-Vallée (1984-87) and the Berlier Industrial Building in Paris (1986-90), Dominique Perrault won the international competition for the François-Mitterrand Bibliothèque de France in 1989, as well as the international competition for the Olympic Swimming Pool and Velodrome in Berlin in 1992, the year in which he opened an agency in Berlin, eleven years after opening his Paris agency. Dominique Perrault is also the author of the Usinor-Sacilor Conference Centre at Saint-Germain en Laye, the Mayenne Departmental Archives, at Laval, and the Meuse Departmental Administrative Centre (Hôtel du Département) at Bar-le-Duc, as well as various urban studies (the Island in de Nantes, the Garonne embankments in Bordeaux, etc). In 1993, he was awarded the Grand Prix National d'Architecture. With this villa in Saint Cast in northern Brittany, with his customary concern for rigour and simplicity, Dominique Perrault pursues his quest for a "zero degree" in architecture, where he combines transparency and dematerialization. Situated between presence and absence, his architecture here tends, intentionally, to become dissolved in a light which contributes to our perception of it. In this way he seeks to introduce a landscape: "a landscape without exclusion, made of everything and for everyone, a positive chaos", here aimed at interweaving architecture and nature.

Dominique Perrault Architecte
Perrault (Dominique) (1953)
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• Villa à Saint Cast France, réalisé, 1998