Organic architecture

He called them fake history.

He wanted what we now call biomimetic or organic architecture, buildings that actually mimicked the natural slope of the mountains with no hard right angles.

They actually used to draw the plans like jazz musicians improvise.

One of Labro's team would act as the bass player, laying down the basic lines of the streets, and the others would riff off it to design the buildings.

If you go to almost any other ski resort built in France in the '60s, you get these giant brutalist concrete blocks.

They basically imported Parisian apartment complexes, stuck some skis on them, and called it a day.

But Labro wanted what he called organic architecture designed with the mountain, not against it.

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