Rudy Ricciotti (born 22 August 1952) is a French

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Biography

Early life

He was born in

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origin on 22 August 1952 and moved to France at the age of three. He studied engineering in Switzerland and he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille in 1980.

Career

He has designed the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM) in Marseilles, Pavillon Noir in Aix-en-Provence, Villa Navarra in

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, the

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, Les Arts Gstaad in

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the International Center of Art and Culture in Liège,

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. He worked on an exhibition in The Louvre with

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, ''The Monaco Times'', 20 May 2015 He abhors minimalism. He supports the "demuseumification of museums." He runs a small publishing house, Al Dante, which publishes photography, essays on architecture, and poetry, including a French translation of John Ashbery. He is a recipient of the Legion of Honor, the Order of Arts and Letters and the National Order of Merit.

Personal life

He lives in

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and has an office in

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. He collects rare books.

Controversy

MUCEM

In February 2015, the French Court of Auditors (“la Cour des comptes”) pointed out "a laborious gestation" with a final cost of €350 million (studies, construction...) instead of €160 million originally planned for the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseilles.

His villa in Cassis (France)

On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Rudy Ricciotti has been heard at the Criminal Court of Toulon for unauthorized work on his property between 2010 and 2012, when he hired workers off the books. His villa is located in the “Parc national des Calanques”, in Cassis, on a natural area classified. He had turned a dovecote from the seventies into a screening room. On 23 November 2018, the Criminal Court of Toulon convicted him to a four months suspended sentence and a fine of €150,000. However and luckily for him, this sentence will not be registered into his criminal record. This allows him to still fulfill orders and to participate to public architectural competitions. The contractor was sentenced to a fine of 120 000 Euros and his villa has been seized.

Bibliography

*''Blitzkrieg : De la culture comme arme fatale'' (with Salvatore Lombardo, Transbordeurs, 2005). *''HQE'' (Le Gac Press, 2013). *''L'architecture est un sport de combat'' (with David d'Equainville, Editions Textuel, 2013, 112 pages). *A. Pergoli Campanelli, ''Point ultime - Rudy RICCIOTTI les interviews al vitriol dun sudiste'

Paris, Sens & Tonka, 1998, pp. 115–125,

Documentaries

*''Le projet Navarra'' (dir. Joël Yvon, 2007, 26 minutes). *''L'Orchidoclaste'' (dir. Laetitia Masson, 2013, 52 minutes).AlloCine
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References

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