Luc Izri

NAME a Memory

I must have been about seven years old; when my grandfather, who was rehabilitating an old ruin, showed me a plan of the future house which he carefully drew by hand albeit not an architect himself. This; coupled with what I was told a year or two earlier, that counter-intuitively the mason is not responsible for the design of what he builds with his hands. The combination of these two events is what shaped my current trajectory.

NAME a City

Dinard in Brittany, France - A small world born out of the imagination of a handful of aristocrats about a century and a half ago with harmonious and unique concatenation of organic, vernacular yet traditional architectural elements.

NAME a Quote

“The world comprehends me and swallows me up like a point, but I comprehend it.”
- Blaise Pascal
Revisited by Pierre Bourdie, it has always been inspiring for me to observe how thinkers manage to re-appropriate what their predecessors have elaborated.

NAME a Building

The Harbin Opera House by MAD Architects - a project I would have loved to be a part of. Despite its few potentially conflicting intentions, the design has remained subtle, refined and perfectly crafted.

NAME a Material

Manchurian ash wood. Wood in general is the ideal balance between nature and man design, within an infinite spectrum of possible variations.