The metropolitan tower : a pedagogical research initiated by Michel Kagan / edited by Nathalie Régnier-Kagan ; translated by Christian Hubert.

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Metropolitan tower (Park Books)

Title & Author:

The metropolitan tower : a pedagogical research initiated by Michel Kagan / edited by Nathalie Régnier-Kagan ; translated by Christian Hubert.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2025]
©2025

Description:

316 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Translated into English from the French edition.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316).

Summary:

An English-language, updated edition of an influential French reference on urban high-rises. The Metropolitan Tower is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953-2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan's writings and contributions by twenty-six distinguished international authors who respond to his ideas with key elements of their own research, the volume comprehensively explores the typology of the metropolitan high-rise since the birth of early modernism. For this new English edition, the book's content has been revised, updated, and expanded in the light of new research conducted by the faculty of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Val de Seine under the direction of Nathalie Régnier-Kagan. It offers a fascinating and multilayered overview informing students, architects, and critics alike on vertical architecture.

ISBN:

3038604267
9783038604266

Subject:

Kagan, Michel W.
Tall buildings Research.
Tall buildings Study and teaching.
Tall buildings Design and construction.
Architecture Study and teaching.
Architectural design.
Architectural models.
Immeubles de grande hauteur Recherche.
Immeubles de grande hauteur Étude et enseignement.
Architecture Étude et enseignement.
Design architectural.

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Translations

Added entries:

Régnier-Kagan, Nathalie, 1961- editor.
Hubert, Christian, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322978
Call No.: 322978
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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