Guided tour around the history of the school’s construction

Name: Guided tour around the history of the school’s construction
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Lycée Grand Air

Visit of the history of the construction of the school built by the architect Paul Domenc from 1946 to 1964 and its decoration made by the sculptor Claude Bouscau, under the title of 1% artistic.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00, 14:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance. Appointment at the entrance gate of the school.

Registration

06 87 49 75 90

©Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Adrienne Barroche

Program of visits and conferences proposed by Jean-Claude Adraste, Denis Paget, Aimé Nouailhas, Emmanuelle Galtier and Bertrand Charneau:

Conference-projection on the high school and Claude Bouscau.
Visit of the exterior of the school with stop in front of each work of Claude Bouscau.
Visit of the restaurant with ceramic frescoes.
Visit of the exterior of the college, forest side
This event takes place in collaboration with the City of Arcachon, the Association Histoire et Traditions du Bassin d'Arcachon, the Service du Patrimoine et de l'Inventaire de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Lycée Grand-Air and the Association des Riverains de la rue Claude Bouscau.

About the location

Lycée Grand Air

Avenue du Dr Lorentz-Monod, 33120 Arcachon

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

First Grand Prix(Prize) of Rome (1935), chief architect of the civil Buildings(Ships) and of the national Palaces, Paul Domenc implants in 1947 this high school of height-air in a 17 hectare pinewood. It builds a real «palace of the Education» provided with separated detached houses(flags), with terraces for physical exercises and with rooms in the big(great) picture windows there to make enter into air and into light.