Roger Anger (24 March 1923 – 15 January 2008
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who worked on the Auroville
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project, designed by Mirra Alfassa
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and endorsed by UNESCO
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and the Government of India. He also collaborated many times with Pierre Puccinelli
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, notably on the Île Verte in Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
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.
References
Bibliography
* Anupama Kundoo: ''Roger Anger, Research on Beauty, Architecture 1953-2008'', JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2009,
20th-century French architects
21st-century French architects
1923 births
2008 deaths
Architects from Paris
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