To the rigor of the right angles of the modern movement, the architect Jacques Couëlle opposes the softness of the curves. He adapts his houses to the natural forms of the land and first makes a model in steel and plaster wires before each construction site.
Rejecting the functionalism of Le Corbusier, this pioneer of biomorphic architecture founded in the mid-1940’s the Centre for Natural Structural Research (CRSN). In the line of Gaudí and Antti Lovag, he designed “happy spaces” shaped around the gestures and uses of their occupants.