City of Music, National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance, Paris, France, View from interior courtyard
Christian de Portzamparc
French, born 1944
1987
A painted and colored-pencil architectural sketch by Christian de Portzamparc that explores the City of Music in Paris, testing how a sweeping roof, cantilevered volumes, and interior performance spaces meet the courtyard and street.
Loose black ink lines and soft washes of blue, green, and yellow make the sectional fragments feel airy and kinetic, with a curving roofline that draws the eye across floating, almost musical compositions on the paper.
The drawing exemplifies Portzamparc’s late‑20th‑century practice of treating cultural buildings as sculptural, urban gestures, advancing more expressive, acoustically aware approaches to concert-hall and conservatory design.
Medium
Paint and colored pencil on print
Dimensions
16 x 11 3/4" (40.6 x 29.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
1.1995
Palette
Art Terms
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