Claude Parent

French architect (1923-2016) and theorist of the oblique function, developed with Paul Virilio in the Architecture Principe group from 1963. Their church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay in Nevers remains its manifesto, and Parent also worked with Yves Klein and later on nuclear power stations. His rare furniture and interior elements translate the same inclined planes and monolithic volumes, and are sought by collectors of radical postwar French architecture.