[…] The method proposed here by Christian Debuyst is at the very least unusual; it juxtaposes two parallel developments: the first one gives a view of the world prevailing in ancient Greece – where the structure of cosmological thought is bound to the social structure and how the environment is organised, including by architecture – and the second deals with the monumental dimension in Marthe Wéry’s work (a concept which is not unrelated to openness, as long as it is understood, in accordance with Le Corbusier, as designating these “places where we can go for a
walk in ourselves”). […]
Éric de Chassey
Director of the Academie de France in Rome (Villa Medici)