The subject of my dissertation relates to the architectural policy conducted in Paris between 1960 and 1995, a period during which a series of high-profile buildings were erected in the capital. We will study the monumental nature of these new architectural aesthetics in dialogue with an existing context, one as marked as that of Paris. We will also explore the link between architecture and power that allows us to observe this series of “modern monuments”. This architecture is owed to architects, nowadays major names in global design, but also to three French presidents who directed and programmed the construction of its monuments and who sometimes even gave them their name. We will talk about the criticism of some of these buildings that occupy an important place in Paris
