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  Gilles Trehin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilles Trehin is a French artist, author, and creator of the imaginary city of "Urville".
Trehin is an autistic savant who lives in Cagnes sur Mer, near Nice, in south-east of France.
Guardian newspaper interview with Gilles Trehin and his wife
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilles_Trehin   (117 words)

  
 Wisconsin Medical Society - Savant Profile, Gilles Trehin and the city of Urville
Gilles Trehin has been drawing since age 5, but at age 12 he began designing an imaginery city he named URVILLE which is described in great detail on this posting, and on his own linked web site as well.
Gilles has presented his remarkable work at a number of autism conferences and conventions which are always well received, and which he very much enjoys sharing with those audiences.
She told us that Gilles knew more, when we asked what she meant, she said "he knows 12th 13th 14th multiplication tables", we tried, (with a calculator) and indeed Gilles could multiply, actually he was only stopped as he didn't know how to express number larger than 1000...
www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org /savant/gilles.cfm   (2131 words)

  
 Godammit, I’m Mad! » Blog Archive » Gilles Trehin: Another Beautiful Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gilles Trehin is a 34 year old Frenchman who has created a city in his mind called Urville.
Gilles, who has been diagnosed as autistic but probably has an autistic spectrum condition called Asperger’s Syndrome, is an angelic looking man who hopes to make a living as an artist.
Gilles Trehin’s book, Urville, published by Jessica Kingsley, is available from Amazon.com and directly from the publisher.
godammit.com /archives/2006/07/gilles-trehin-another-beautiful-mind   (420 words)

  
 Gilles Trehin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gilles Trehin was diagnosed with autism at the age of 8 when his family was living in USA.
In 1984 Trehin begun to draw the plans of his imaginary city Urville (the name is based on the French scientific Antarctic base of "Dumont d'Urville.
Trehin has formulated the city's fate during the history and events like the French Revolution and both World Wars.
www.kiwipedia.com /gilles-trehin.html   (171 words)

  
 GILLES TREHIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gilles Trehin é savant autistic francês e criador da cidade fictitious de Urville.
Gilles Trehin foi diagnosticado com o autism na idade de 8 quando sua família estava vivendo nos EUA sobre os talents desenvolvidos Trehin dos anos para a música, o cálculo mental e extrair.
Trehin formulou o fate da cidade durante o history e eventos como a volta francesa e ambas as guerras de mundo.
www.faktoport.com /wiki/pt/gi/Gilles%20Trehin.htm   (196 words)

  
 Guardian | Autistic couple bound to each other - and their art
Gilles Tréhin spends his days working on a project he loves, in the flat he shares with Catherine, his girlfriend.
Gilles and Catherine are a delightfully affectionate couple, solicitous of each other's welfare, hugely admiring of each other's art.
Gilles was luckier than Catherine in that his autism was identified at age eight, when the Tréhins moved to the US.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329457948-117420,00.html   (1610 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Gilles Tréhin, a savant and his imaginary city   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gilles Tréhin, an autistic gentleman who lives in Cagnes sure Mer, France, has designed an incredibly detailed city that exists only inside his head.
My name is Gilles Tréhin, I was born in 1972, I live in Cagnes sur Mer, near Nice, in south-east of France.
Gilles Tréhin's father Chantal kindly informs me that his son's book has just been published in English and is available on Amazon.
www.boingboing.net /2006/03/27/gilles_trahin_a_sava.html   (460 words)

  
 GILLES TREHIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gilles Trehin is French autistic savant and creator of the fictitious city of Urville.
In 1984 Trehin begun to draw the plans of his imaginary city Urville (the name is based on the French scientific Antartic base of "Dumont d'Urville".
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/gi/Gilles%20Trehin.htm   (189 words)

  
 Welcome to Dymocks Online. More for Booklovers.
Gilles Trehin, an autistic man with exceptional creative talents and an obsession with large cities, conceived and developed Urville over the course of 20 years.
This includes historical figures and cultural anecdotes grounded in historical reality - Trehin accounts for the effects of the Vichy regime, the Second World War and globalisation on his imagined city.
This book offers fascinating evidence of and insight into the creative power of the autistic mind and will be of interest to people with autism and without.
www.dymocks.com.au /dynamic/Full_Details.aspx?ISBN=1843104199   (163 words)

  
 Film Review - FourDocs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Drawing since the age of five, Gilles began developing the imaginary city of Urville.
Now 32, Gilles is in the processes of publishing his incredibly detailed drawings and demographic statistics surrounding this imaginary French city.
Gilles narrates the film as we discover how his childlike passion for lego skyscrapers and aeroplanes, turned into a series of detailed blueprints for Urville the city in Gilles' head.
www.channel4.tv /fourdocs/film/additional-info.jsp?id=1313   (65 words)

  
 Kosmograd: July 2006
Urville, is of course, a fictitious city, existing only in the head of Gilles Trehin, but for him it is palpably real.
Trehin's renderings and texts show a detachment from the lives of the citizens of Urville, with key individuals given no backstory, and on the perspective images, people are almost always alone.
But Trehin is not alone, locked inside his own mind and creation, instead cozily cooped up with girlfriend, Catherine Mouet, an artist diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
kosmograd.typepad.com /kosmograd/2006/07/index.html   (3286 words)

  
 Film Review - FourDocs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Drawing since the age of five, Gilles began developing a series of detailed blueprints for his imaginary city of Urville.
A terrific little portrait of Gilles Trehin who has a rare type of autism resulting in an extraordinary ability to draw imagined detail; in this case astonishing aerial views of fantastic cities.
However, it wasnt just about Gilles' art, as it is about Gilles and his Autism too, and so there is a lot to squeeze in.
www.channel4.com /fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=1313   (293 words)

  
 Urville
Urville.com is a collection of information about an imaginary city called Urville, that has been entirely constructed in the head of a purportedly autistic man, Gilles Trehin.
The city of Urville is an imaginary French city envisioned by Gilles Trehin.
Trehin has spent the last 16 years creating this alternate world, writing out a complex history that delves deep into the city’s architecture, politics and culture.
www.ljtop.com /urville_138468722r.html   (386 words)

  
 Gilles Tréhin, un autiste surdoué
Il n’empêche, et Gilles le confie lui-même: l’époque où ses camarades de classe le traitaient de «mongolien» est révolue.
Depuis, Gilles a dessiné plus de 210 vues de détails de la ville, sans compter les plans d’ensemble qui recouvrent d’immenses feuilles de papier, striées d’une infinité de traits noirs.
Du doigt, Gilles longe quelques-unes des principales avenues, s’arrête sur un bâtiment remarquable pour en indiquer la date de construction, avant de filer à l’autre bout de la cité vers l’aéroport – «grand comme Roissy et Orly réunis» – dont il semble si fier.
www.autisme.qc.ca.sys-tech.net /nouvelles/docViewing.php?section=nouvelles&noCat=40&noDoc=385   (959 words)

  
 metasurface: Celebrating the Interior
There has been a lot of discussion on the blogs I frequent about a young man named Gilles Trehin.
Gilles draws very vivid, intricate, and believeable representations of an imaginary city he calls Urville.
I like this short documentary about his work and I found his appreciation of the socio-political aspects of the real world and their impact on his interior vision equally intricate and vivid.
www.metasurface.net /2006/03/celebrating-interior.html   (103 words)

  
 spurgeonblog: Imaginary worlds part 2
Urville is the extraordinary creation of Gilles Trehin, a 34 year old French man with autism.
For more than 20 years, Trehin has been creating Urville out of his imagination...he's made hundreds of meticulously detailed drawings of the city,...
URVILLE is located in the southern part of the Phoenician Island (3 022 km2), main island of the Insular Province archipelago, which is also constituted of Sloop Island at the north east (306 km2), and Sarrasin Island at the west (103 km2).
www.spurgeonworld.com /blog/archives/2006/08/imaginary_world_1.html   (300 words)

  
 Savant Profile: Gilles Trehin and the city of Urville | OurDiagnosis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Savant Profile: Gilles Trehin and the city of Urville
Savant Profile: Gilles Trehin and the city of Urville
Technorati Tags: giles trehin, urville, autism, savant syndrome, boingboing, wisconsin medical society
www.ourdiagnosis.com /node/21750   (353 words)

  
 » Blog Archive » Urville - A City in the Mind of 28 Year Old Gilles Trehin
Urville - A City in the Mind of 28 Year Old Gilles Trehin
Trehin has complimented the more than 200 drawings of architecture and city layout with an account of the city’s history, geography, economy and culture.
This entry was posted on Monday, March 27th, 2006 at 4:15 pm and is filed under On the Web.
www.phx411.com /wordpress/?p=333   (142 words)

  
 pointblog.com : Boing Boing et un jeune français autiste
Gilles Trehin conçoit et dessine Urville une ville imaginaire depuis plus de 20 ans, présentée en plusieurs langues sur son site web où il vend des copies de ses dessins et des cartes postales.
Le livre de Gilles Trehin, (qui vient de sortir en anglais), est aussi disponible en francais sur AFD: http://autismediffusion.free.fr/livrautres.htm
Gilles dispose également d'un assez bon niveau de communication.
www.pointblog.com /past/2006/03/29/boing_boing_et_un_jeune_francais_autiste.htm   (449 words)

  
 [ Z E M I ] LEGO Blog and Creations - 302
28 year old Gilles Trehin is an autistic savant who lives in Cagnes sur Mer, France.
Since he was 12, he has been creating and developing one thing: an astoundingly detailed city called Urville.
Gilles has brought the imaginary city to life with hundreds of elaborate drawings and diagrams.
www.zemi.net /?p=302   (239 words)

  
 Gilles Tréhin - author information - Jessica Kingsley Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gilles Tréhin - author information - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Gilles Tréhin is 32 years old and autistic.
He has exceptional talents in mathematics, music, languages and art.
www.jkp.com /catalogue/author.php/id/1412   (56 words)

  
 empty streets :: Blog Archive » imaginary cities
Starting with Legos more than 20 years ago, 34-year-old Gilles Tréhin has created a vast imaginary metropolis he calls Urville, which he has documented over the years with astonishing sweep and single-mindedness in some 200 drawings accompanied by extensive historical notes.
Gilles Tréhin is obviously a permanent resident of just such a city, but with the imaginary city of Urville, he has made the fantasy a reality.
While the individual architectural drawings aren't very rich and the prose style (at least the translation on the website) isn't always compelling, Tréhin's scope and attention to detail is amazing.
emptystreets.net /blog/?p=61   (460 words)

  
 Fédération des Associations Pour Adultes et Jeunes Handicapés - Urville
Gilles Tréhin, personne autiste, asperger que certains ont pu voir sur le plateau de Jean-Luc Delarue, dispose de capacités exceptionnelles en dessin qu'il exerce depuis l'âge de 5 ans.
Gilles Tréhin nous conte également l'histoire de cette cité gigantesque et de ses habitants, dont il connaît les moindres détails.
Le livre de Gilles Tréhin qui rassemble ses dessins sur sa cité imaginaire d'URVILLE est enfin disponible.
www.apajh.org /apajh/site_internet/sommaire/livres/urville.443.html   (276 words)

  
 el florido byte: Joven Urville | navegaciones
Desde los 12 Gilles Trehin se ha dedicado a diseñar una ciudad imaginaría llamada Urville.
En estos años Gilles ha descrito con cuidado detalle todo tipo de datos historicos, geográficos, culturales y económicos a la vez que ha realizado numerosos e increibles dibujos.
Urville, la ciudad inventada, existe en la cabeza de Trehin, pero cuando la hace conocer en dibujos, libros, y en conferencias, de esta manera él logra “hacer existir Urvill”;.
www.elfloridobyte.com /navegaciones/1935/joven-urville   (208 words)

  
 Since he was 12, Gilles Trehin has been drawing and writing about the imaginary city of Urville (kottke.org)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Since he was 12, Gilles Trehin has been drawing and writing about the imaginary city of Urville (kottke.org)
Since he was 12, Gilles Trehin has been drawing and writing about the imaginary city of Urville, which is situated on the Mediterranean coast of France, was founded by the Phoenicians in the 12th century BC, and currently houses over 17 million inhabitants.
All content by Jason Kottke (contact me) unless otherwise noted, with some restrictions on its use.
www.kottke.org /remainder/06/07/11525.html   (108 words)

  
 Amateur Illustrator : Community of Illustrators
Perhaps not strictly qualfying as news, I came across this very interesting read a few days ago and hope you will find it as inspiring as I did.
The amazing part is that the city that Gilles has created is so detailed and rich that you might believe that it actually exists.
The passion with which he pursues his dream of creating “Urville”; is simply infectious, and the art he creates as a part of it is just as fantastic.
www.amateurillustrator.com /articles/?p=116   (233 words)

  
 A Strange Sojourn | Metropolis Magazine
His extraordinarily detailed urban agglomeration is presented in the new book Urville from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, which specializes in titles about autism.
To Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, the completeness of Tréhin’s vision is characteristic of his disorder, which often produces savants.
According to the intricate history of the fictitious French city Urville, the Place de Castelrouffiau has been the site of public markets since 1897 and is the subject of a 1972 song by fantasy chanteuse Annie Malmerasse.
www.metropolismag.com /cda/story.php?artid=2140   (600 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - gilles, CDs, Non-Fiction Books, Motor Sport Memorabilia items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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search.ebay.co.uk /gilles_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3   (368 words)

  
 Birdland Audio - Everything you always wanted to know about Gilles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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