Throughout his career Claude Parent combined his artist and theorist facets; it was he who formulated, with Paul Virirlio, the theory of 'oblique function'. 

The French architect Claude Parent passed away on 27 February, hours after turning 93. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1923, he who was Le Corbusier’s student built few but highly influential works, from Villa Drusch in Versailles to the Church of Saint