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L'île Saint-Louis
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À l'égal des places des Vosges et Vendôme, l'île Saint-Louis est le seul ensemble monumental parisien ayant traversé les siècles presque indemne. Mais, alors que les places royales sont commandées la première par Henri IV, la seconde par Louis XIV, l'île Saint-Louis, qui reçoit le patronage de Louis XIII, est la première opération urbanistique d'ampleur(...)
History until 1900
March 1998, Paris
L'île Saint-Louis
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À l'égal des places des Vosges et Vendôme, l'île Saint-Louis est le seul ensemble monumental parisien ayant traversé les siècles presque indemne. Mais, alors que les places royales sont commandées la première par Henri IV, la seconde par Louis XIV, l'île Saint-Louis, qui reçoit le patronage de Louis XIII, est la première opération urbanistique d'ampleur laissée à l'entreprise privée. Ce livre a pour objet de retracer les gloires passées et d'éclairer le devenir de l'île.
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March 1998, Paris
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Histoire de l'architecte
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Ce livre est une histoire de l'architecte et de son métier, depuis les premiers praticiens de l'Antiquité grecque jusqu'aux architectes contemporains. Une histoire vivante, qui retrace l'émergence, la pratique et les transformations d'un art et d'une profession, de Vitruve à Richard Meier. Pour chaque époque, les auteurs analysent le statut social de(...)
Histoire de l'architecte
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Ce livre est une histoire de l'architecte et de son métier, depuis les premiers praticiens de l'Antiquité grecque jusqu'aux architectes contemporains. Une histoire vivante, qui retrace l'émergence, la pratique et les transformations d'un art et d'une profession, de Vitruve à Richard Meier. Pour chaque époque, les auteurs analysent le statut social de l'architecte, sa relation avec le client et le pouvoir politique, les contraintes et les rêves idéologiques, ainsi que le rôle du bâtisseur dans l'évolution des techniques. Avec la collaboration de plusieurs auteurs, dont Jean-Louis Cohen, Isabelle Gournay, François Loyer, Antoine Picon, Cynthia Henderson et Brad Culver.
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October 1998, Paris
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Follows the thousand-year history of Roman architecture from the Republican period through the early Christian Era. A special attention is given to the development of concrete construction; the author also explains vigorous regional variations on the classical architectural vocabulary in the Eastern and Western provinces.
History of world architecture : roman architecture
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Follows the thousand-year history of Roman architecture from the Republican period through the early Christian Era. A special attention is given to the development of concrete construction; the author also explains vigorous regional variations on the classical architectural vocabulary in the Eastern and Western provinces.
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October 2003, London
History until 1900
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This book, a documentary history, records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions, as we know them today, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century(...)
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May 2004, London / New York
The emergence of modern architecture : a documentary history from 1000 to 1810
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This book, a documentary history, records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions, as we know them today, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.
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Moscou : mémoire d'une ville
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Ce parcours d'un piéton amoureux de Moscou en restitue 1a profusion architecturale, en découvre les visages multiples et méconnus : car Moscou n'est pas seulement le Kremlin ni le champ épique des urbanistes soviétiques ni le rutilant décor de la ville d'aujourd'hui. L'auteur fait resurgir la mémoire de Moscou. La ville pieuse des " quarante fois quarante églises ", des(...)
Moscou : mémoire d'une ville
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Ce parcours d'un piéton amoureux de Moscou en restitue 1a profusion architecturale, en découvre les visages multiples et méconnus : car Moscou n'est pas seulement le Kremlin ni le champ épique des urbanistes soviétiques ni le rutilant décor de la ville d'aujourd'hui. L'auteur fait resurgir la mémoire de Moscou. La ville pieuse des " quarante fois quarante églises ", des splendides monastères. L'âge classique, très long et très beau, d'une ville qui demeura malgré la fondation de Pétersbourg, en 1703, le séjour préféré de la noblesse. Les exquis " boulevards ", conservatoire de l'urbanisme ancien. Les domaines de campagne, absorbés dans le tissu même de la ville par l'urbanisation. La foisonnante Moscou capitaliste : gares, usines, magasins, hôtels de marchands, maisons de rapport, musées et théâtres, construits dans les styles les plus divers, au fil des goûts et des techniques. Enfin, l'architecture soviétique: l'époque d'avant-garde, splendide et décisive dans l'histoire de l'architecture mondiale bien qu'elle art peu affecté l'aspect même de sa capitale; l'époque stalinienne, héroïque, historiciste, parfois décriée, mais qui a marqué le visage de la ville comme Haussmann celui de Paris. Délaissant à dessein le style "international" qui s'instaure avec Khrouchtchev et l'agressive vulgarité de l'immobilier contemporain, le livre conduit son lecteur dans le dédale des ruelles, des lieux méconnus que l'on découvre à l'écart et lui fait ressentir le véritable esprit de la ville 1a plus " russe " de Russie. Photograhies d'Alexandre Viktorov, d'Alexandre Rozanov, d'Ekaterina Chorban.
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September 2002, Paris
History until 1900
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This guidebook to the history of architecture in Venice encompasses the city’s variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated, this edition of Deborah Howard’s classic volume, first published in 1980, is filled with new illustrations. Howard traces the entire evolution of Venice’s architecture, placing special emphasis on the political,(...)
The architectural history of Venice
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This guidebook to the history of architecture in Venice encompasses the city’s variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated, this edition of Deborah Howard’s classic volume, first published in 1980, is filled with new illustrations. Howard traces the entire evolution of Venice’s architecture, placing special emphasis on the political, social, and economic framework that supported it. She highlights the achievements of such individual architects as Sansovino, Palladio, Longhena, Massari, and Selva.
History until 1900
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In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her eight-year odyssey took her over ninety thousand miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the(...)
Fifty houses : images from the American road
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In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her eight-year odyssey took her over ninety thousand miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand "house portraits," Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in Fifty Houses. Shot with black-and-white infrared film, the homes captured through Sorlien's lens range from the grand to the humble, from the historic to the commonplace. Included here are a classic saltbox in Newtown, Connecticut; the House on the Rocks in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay; a mobile home in Bushnell, Florida; a Stick-style folk Victorian in Biloxi, Mississippi; a limestone cottage in Fredericksburg, Texas; a false-front house in Rollins, Montana; a log cabin in Dubois, Wyoming; an adobe dwelling in Sante Fe, New Mexico; and a platform tent in Healy, Alaska. Each image is accompanied by a vignette from Sorlien's road journal, offering details of the house depicted, its owners and history, other houses in the region, or her travel experiences in the state.
History until 1900
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Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation.
Italian architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini
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Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation.
History until 1900
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century(...)
Architecture of the nineteenth century
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century architecture in France and England, countries where Cartesian-school philosophical speculation and Anglo-Saxon philosophical empiricism wielded a determining influence. After analysing the developments of the classical tradition and its propagation throughout Europe, the book studies in depth the history of architectural movements, comprising neo-classicism, neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic architecture. The outstanding, forerunning personalities of this brilliant artistic period who, in the course of the nineteenth century, offered fecund theoretic and stylistic contributions, include Gottfried Semper, John Ruskin and Eugène Viollet-le Duc.
History until 1900
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The book emphasizes the leading subjects of the 16th-century Reniassance: the architects (Bramante, Vignola), the patrons (Leo X, Cosimo I de Medici), the artists (Michelangelo), and the cities (Rome, Venice, Florence).
Italian architecture of the 16th century
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The book emphasizes the leading subjects of the 16th-century Reniassance: the architects (Bramante, Vignola), the patrons (Leo X, Cosimo I de Medici), the artists (Michelangelo), and the cities (Rome, Venice, Florence).
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