Antoine Stinco

Antoine Stinco (9 January 1934 – 14 February 2023) was a French architect who specialized in the construction and renovation of museums and exhibition rooms.

Early years Stinco was born in Tunis, Tunisia, and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Edouard Albert, Paul Herbé and Jean Prouvé. Stinco contributed the design for an inflatable mobile exhibition hall in which everyday things would be exhibited, drawing on the work of German structural engineer Frei Otto for the bubble-based form and on the philosophy of the Marxist Henri Lefebvre for the commonplace exhibits. Talking of his construction of new buildings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, he said "I set myself a rule: release me from flat and literal compliance with the architecture of the past, and also from the ridiculous fear of not being 'modern'".

Sample projects With his company he specializes in construction and renovation of museums and exhibition rooms. Examples of his work

Renovations of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Tuileries Gardens in Paris (1987-1991) Renovation of the old Collège Sainte-Barbe, which became the Bibliothèque Sainte-Barbe in 2009 Théâtre National de Bretagne in 2008 Gallery of modern and contemporary art, Toulouse New buildings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers