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Posted 06.28.12 | PERMALINK | ESSAY

Kenny Cupers: Paris: Life Forms



Paris: Life Forms
La Courneuve, Place Paul Verlaine, 2011

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Paris: Life Forms
On Places, a slideshow by Kenny Cupers documenting the nuanced realities of life in the public housing estates of suburban Paris.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kenny Cupers is working on a monograph on the history of French mass housing; starting in fall 2012 he will be an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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