L’homme et sa maison. Amérique centrale et du sud It's a story that begins

It's a story that begins with the humiliations they experienced and becomes the great story of emancipation through art

a mirror of our own convictions and aspirations

Born in 1927 in Le Havre

a form of spirituality in art

L’homme et sa maison. Amérique centrale et du sud It's a story that beginsA pioneering and essential figure in French geography, Pierre Deffontaines published this major text in 1972, shortly before his death. The geographer then has in his luggage as an "active traveler" countless readings, field notebooks and live drawings; enough to abundantly nourish several regional monographs but, above all, to give substance to this ambitious volume on the diversity of men through the prism of their "essential mark": the house.