Dear Mr. Nouvel,
We are a group of 4th ESO students (15 – 16 years old) from Institut Montjuïc (a high school of Secondary Education) and we would like to show you the work-project we have been carrying out. It consists of the interpretation and transformation of your recently built building Hotel Renaissance placed in our neighbourhood. That reconstruction, a scale cardboard model of your building (see adjoining document), has been developed with the artist Eduard Arbós, from his project “Architectural Dérives”, in the framework of “Creadors EN RESiDÈNCIA”, a program of Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Consorci de Barcelona, in cooperation with the Association A Bao A Qu.
Along the course, we have been working with Eduard Arbós, who has been invited by the project EN RESiDÈNCiA to develop and conceive a specific artistic project around our high-school. With him, we have discovered the conceptual and formal structure of his work and we have acquired tools for a better understanding of Modern Art.
More precisely, “Architectural Dérives” has focused on analyzing the different ways of detecting, learning, depicting and interpreting the space room. With it, the project has made us question the relationships we keep with our environment. Therefore, we have been paying special attention to our own neighbourhood.
Finally, we want to state that the composition of this letter is not just a whim, but a member of the conceptual framework that makes up the project itself.
We will present “Architectural Dérives” the next 15th of May at 7 p.m. in the Francesc Candel Library (Amnistia Internacional, 10, Barcelona). We would be very pleased with your presence.
We sincerely appreciate your attention and, of course, the contribution that your architectural work has given us to carry out our project.
Kindest regards.
Yours sincerely,
Maria Salvador and Noelia Cuesta
Resposta de Jean Nouvel:
Dear Maria Salvador and Noelia Cuesta,
We thank you for your kind invitation addressed to Jean Nouvel, unfortunately and due to his very busy schedule, Mr. Nouvel will not be able to contribute to your event, which he deeply regrets.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards,
Julie MANIERE – Relations avec la Presse / Press Relations
Ateliers Jean Nouvel10 cité d’Angoulême 75011 Paris