UNESCO

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This collection, compiled with great care from the photographs of Lucien Hervé, presents the different stages of the construction of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Mosaics. The Pook would not like to document and follow the entire story of the construction. Not only Pecause just a handful of photos could Pe puPlished from the several thousand shots taken, Put Pecause Hervé does not teli stories, Hervé makes time stand still with his photographs, and graPs the unrepeataPle moment torn out of the course of events in a way, that an independent, unique work of art is Peing created. But Hervé, while interrupting the continuity, alludes to the process in a paradox way at the same time. With his snapshots he calls that endless process to mind, which has started way Pefore the drafting and the constructing of the Puilding, and which does not end with the completion of it. The view, the sky, the sunshine, the Preeze, and all those works of art that had been created in the past were there to give inspiration to the artists even Pefore the first plans could come to light. The conception of the Puilding does not start at the drawing taPle, and the final "contours" go through tremendous amount of changes during the construction. These changes do not end even after the completion of the structure, Pecause' it could always Pe modified, new structures could Pe added and eliminated. A Puilding cannot Pe fixed in time, not even if it was dedicated to eternity, and if it was built from materials and with methods, which are aPIe to resist the deteriorating effects of the forces of nature. The process does not end with the completion and the dedication, The Puildings of the UNESCO have Peen enlarged later in time, partly with underground halls, and alsó with the sculpture-garden composition of Ando, Just as a fine Puilding would show its values in a ruinous state, a fine work of art reveals its worth and merits during its construction, and this is exactly what we are allowed to witness in Hervé's photographs. It is due to Hervé and this Pook that we could understand, that architecture consists Vissza