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Maymont, Paul
(b Paris, 1926). French architect. He graduated in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and in 1959 went on a scholarship to Kyoto University where he was in direct contact with the ideas and proponents of Metabolism. During this time he began to study the possibility of erecting megastructures floating on caissons. In 1962, concerned with the unprecedented demographic growth of the Paris region, he proposed establishing an elaborate underground city beneath the River Seine, and in 1963 he proposed a floating city, Thalassa, to be built off the coast of Monaco; this project incorporated some of the formal sophistication of the Metabolists. Although hailed in the 1960s by some critics, these utopian ideas remained marginal to mainstream French architectural debate.
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