He is also the author of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg and designed the Avignon justice palace.
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The French architect and urban planner Adrien Fainsilber, author of the Cité des Sciences in Paris and the Géode, died Saturday at the age of 91, announced his family to the France-Presse agency (AFP) Monday, February 13.
Born in 1932 in Nouvion-en-Thiérache (Aisne) and a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1960, Adrien Fainsilber continued training turned towards town planning and landscape art in Europe in the North and the United States, two disciplines as evidenced by many of its achievements.
He made himself known to the general public in 1986 with the City of Sciences and Industry at the Parc de la Villette, in Paris, and its metallic sphere, the geode, in which the sky is reflected and which houses a cinema . The same year he received the Grand Prix of Architecture.
Adrien Fainsilber is also the author of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, inaugurated in 1998, and which testifies to the important place reserved for technique to ensure fluid circulation inside structures.
In 1970, he began the realization of the University of Paris-XIII, in Villetaneuse. The whole will be completed by 500 social housing units for students built from 1972 to 1974 and by other university and research premises, from 1974 to 1975.
He also designed, from 1972 to 1975, the first technology university in France, in Compiègne (Oise), and the Palais de Justice d’Avignon, created in 2000, the year he founded the Architecture Agency Adrien Fainsilber and associates, whom he will leave in 2007.
Adrien Fainsilber was a member of the Architecture Academy. He taught at the Paris Urban Planning Institute and the Paris-Tolbiac School of Architecture.