Villeneuve by JLBG
The ?Atelier d?urbanisme et d?architecture? (AUA) (Urbanism and architecture workshop) was created in the early 60s. Jacques Allegret, an urbanist, created with friends (architects, decorators) a cooperative in order to comply with ?the fast evolution of technics and the modification of the art of building, needing intervention of more and more specialists in various fields, geographers, sociologists, urbanists, real estate enquirers, jurists, financial experts, architects, engenieers, plasticians etc.? In 1960, in France, that was quite revolutionary ! The group worked together until 1986. Outstanding architects (Paul Chemetov, Henri Ciriani, Jean and Maria Deroche, Christian Devillers, Borja Huidobro, Jacques Kalisz, Gérard Loiseau, Jean Perrotet, Jean Tribel...) and landscape-builders ( (Jacques Simon, Michel Corajoud, Alexandre Chemetov...), the best of their generation, belonged to the AUA.
The AUA was collectively responsible for conceiving and building the Villeneuve de Grenoble-Échirolles,
The Villeneuve is made of the long Arlequin gallery, finished in 1973, and of the Baladins buildings. It is organized around a wide park and of the place des Géants, which name comes from the monumental statues of Schultze. The architect Dimounet conceived the school of architecture that opens on this pedestrian only space
The Villeneuve is the most achieved example of integrated urban space, in the same way than new Scandinavian or anglo-saxon cities.