The architect and critic François Chaslin passed away on 7 August in Lanildut, a small commune on the coast of the French deparment of Finistère, where he lived in a house he had renovated himself, far from the Parisian maelstrom where the bulk of his career had played out, but which he now only visited for medical appointments and procedures. At the beach of Crapaud – where he was in the habit of bathing even in winter “amid the fogs and winds of Brittany” – he suddenly felt unwell while swimming, but managed to return to shore and die in the arms of his wife, Sophie Dauchez-Chaslin...[+]