case istorice cu structură de lemn

Architecture is, without any doubt, linked to photography, and my passion for the latter has gradually grown, becoming a common means of capturing the unusual and various places discovered through many journeys. Active in both professional practice and education, the built space is a major subject of my own photographs, through its variety and quality. Any trip – shorter (a scientific conference, a trade fair, a sports competition) or longer (a winter or summer vacation, a student traineeship, a world exhibition) – to a new location represents for me an opportunity to encounter architecture from other areas or cultures, immortalizing both constructive innovations and traditional techniques.

Rouen has over 200 half-timbered houses from the Middle Ages, the old town centre offering a living history of a traditional building technique with visible structural elements on the facade. Subsequent interventions on the same urban front were made in other periods, resulting in an eclectic architectural mix, but which highlights the most special buildings. Technological evolution and the disappearance of craftsmen emphasize the need to preserve these testimonies of past eras.