Cibachrome
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The open air school of Suresnes was built
at the beginning of the 1930s, inspired by sanatoriums: it was designed to
offer open-air therapy to children that needed to be protected from
tuberculosis. The classrooms imagined by architects Eugène Baudoin and Marcel
Lods were detached houses. Their walls were large glass screens that could be
folded so that there would be no separation from the outside and that the
children could study outdoors. L'école de plein-air [The open air school]
shows one of these screens where the trees of the park and the reflection of
the classroom blend, questioning the possibility of concurrence between the
world and the place where it is studied: how is the space constructed, what is
our relationship to the world, and, at last, is it best seen through a lens and
a prism?
