Guy Rottier, Roving architecture 

No question, Guy Rottier’s work is a plain statement of his concern with self-distancing: biographically he was early on at odds with territoriality, and would go on to gradually withdraw from the discipline of architecture. Born in Sumatra, he studied engineering and architecture in the Netherlands, went on to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, learned about modernism from Le Corbusier in 1947–1949 and in 1958 moved to Nice, where he frequented artists like Ben, Reiser, Arman and Klein, as well as the entire École de Nice. In 1996, he founded the Conspiratives group after having previously joined the International Group for Prospective Architecture (GIAP) in 1965, followed by the solar energy initiative COMPLES and the international utopians of Habitat Évolutif in 1970. From 1970 to 1978 he taught in Damascus and from 1979 to 1987 he lived in Rabat, Morocco. Read the full text on Calameo…