The story is about Architect Lucien Bernard, a Modernist, and it is at Contrast and tension is the architecture or structure that theĪuthor has designed to hold the story together. Belfoure does give us limited information about the death camps in The Paris Architect only to the extent thatĭid not become an architect of death. Jewish men, women and children to the Gestapo. Who are designing and building for the Nazis factories, detention and deathīelfoure’s story includes the collaborators, Gestapo agents and those who reported Have mobilized an army of soldiers, construction and slave-prisoner workers toĬontrasting the knowledge of an architect designing hiding places against those Product specifications, to have retained local construction companies, and to Of details, and produced the numerous volumes of type written construction and Have drawn up the 100s of plan sheets for one site, to have generated the 1000s Professional hours of intellectual activity to have designed and planned, to To you as an Architect, that it would have taken an extremely large number of Was that the death camps were only possible because of architects. To Poland and told me about his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the The USA from Poland as a boy after the World War II, returned from a vacation trip Obvious fact that the hiding places are created in buildings as this reviewįriend, Yar, an architect, a classmate in architecture school and who came to

The novel, I believe, goes deeper than the Places for Jewish Frenchmen during Germany’s occupation of Paris in 1942. Paris Architect is about a gentile architect who creates clever hiding Grisham, an attorney is the author of suspenseful attorney stories. What is the role of modern architecture in the story?

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