Rudy Ricciotti "Architecture is a combat sport"

Conversation with David d'Équainville

(Les éditions Textuel, Paris, 2013)

Rudy Ricciotti: "I am a fervent defender of an architecture at the intersection of the primitive dimension of concrete and the most spectacular engineering."

On the occasion of the inauguration of MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée) and a monographic exhibition at the Cité de l'architecture (10 April-8 September 2013, Paris), Rudy Ricciotti proposes an analysis of architecture through the prism of its technical, administrative, but also artistic aspects.

With a polemical and provocative tone, addressing with vigor and clarity the idea of responsibility in the architectural profession, Ricciotti nuances the main "struggles" waged over several decades, questioning, in an iconoclastic manner, the stakes and prospects of this profession.

Rudy Ricciotti, winner of the Grand Prix national d'architecture in 2006 and a member of the editorial board of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, published "HQE, Les Renards du temple" in 2007 with Al Dante publishing house, which he has been running since 2009. His achievements, in which concrete, his favourite material, challenges the conventions of an already standardized modernity, have brought him international recognition (Vitrolles Stadium, the National Choreographic Centre in Aix-en-Provence, the Potsdam Philharmonic, the Seoul Peace Bridge, the Cocteau Museum in Menton, etc.).