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Renaudie, Jean
(b La Meyze, 8 June 1925; d Ivry-sur-Seine, 13 Oct 1981). French architect. He studied architecture under Auguste Perret and Marcel Lods at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 1960, in partnership with Pierre Riboulet, Gérard Thurnauer and Jean-Louis Véret, he formed the Atelier de Montrouge, a studio that produced some of the most successful neo-brutalist buildings popular in France at the time; perhaps the best-known example is the children’s library (1965) in Clamart. In 1968 Renaudie established his own office in Ivry-sur-Seine, where he completed some multi-use buildings, Ilôt Casanova (1970–72) and Centre Jean Hachette (1970–75), as part of a proposal to revitalize the unstructured fabric of this working-class suburb of Paris. In these buildings he reinterpreted theoretical megastructure projects developed by the Atelier de Montrouge for the town of Saint-Denis in reaction against the rigid zoning then enforced. For medium-cost housing he developed star-shaped flats providing a variety of internal arrangements and large terraces, and he used concrete, sharp angles and large expanses of glass in the housing estates he designed in the historic centre of Givors (1974–80) and Villetaneuse (1976–85), Paris. He was awarded the Grand Prix National d’Architecture in 1978. After his death, his outstanding projects, including the Ecole Einstein (1979–82) in Ivry-sur-Seine, were completed by his office.
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