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Encyclopédie Perret

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Auguste Perret est sans conteste l’une des grandes figures de l’architecture du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage très complet adopte la forme d’une encyclopédie thématique pour présenter les principaux projets de ce précurseur, les notions qu’il a utilisées, ainsi que le tissu de ses relations sociales et professionnelles.

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le Corbusier le Grand

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Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp, the capitol complex in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, bow tie, and round black eyeglasses are still today a signature look for architects around the world. Le Corbusier Le Grand’s oversized format and luxurious binding reflect the legendary status of this “giant” of twentieth-century architecture and design. The book includes an insightful introductory essay by France’s most authoritative architectural historian and critic, Jean-Louis Cohen, and incisive chapter introductions by highly regarded Le Corbusier scholar Tim Benton. A separate booklet includes translations of documents, many of which have never been translated into English before.

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Casablanca : colonial myths and architectural ventures

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Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port city well before the introduction of the French in 1907, it unquestionably ranks among the most significant urban creations of the twentieth century, attracting remarkable teams of architects and planners. Their commissions came from clients who were interested in innovation and modernization, thereby fostering the emergence of Casablanca as a laboratory for legislative, technological, and visual experimentation. Having studied the city for ten years, Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb trace, from the late nineteenth century to the early 1960s, the rebirth of a once-forgotten port and its metamorphosis into a teeming metropolis that is an amalgam of Mediterranean culture from Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, and Italy. The extensive presentation of the significant buildings of this hybrid city -- where, alongside the French, Muslim and Jewish Moroccan patrons commissioned provocative buildings -- is drawn from French and Moroccan archives, including hundreds of previously unpublished photographs.

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Mies van der Rohe

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Extrait de la préface: «Les pages qui suivent pouvaient paraître insolentes lors de la première édition de ce livre en 1994. Tenter de ressembler en un volume aussi resserré la densité et l'ampleur de la contribution de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe à l'architecture du xxe siècle n'était pas moins ardue une douzaine d'années plus tard. Après des décennies d'une production critique atone, les positions doctrinales, la biographie et le travail projectuel de l'architecte avaient été accompagné ou suivi le centenaie de sa naissance, commémoré en 1986 en Europe et aux États-Unis. Jusqu'à cette date et en dépit des rares aperçus inventifs offerts ici ou là, la configuration généralement admise de l'oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe se réduisait en effet à un bouquet clairsemé d'oeuvres et à une collection d'aphorismes usés par leur répétition ou par leur détournement.

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The lost vanguard

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The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life. Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Soviet regime, these important buildings have remained unknown and unappreciated. Richard Pare's photographs reveal the powerful forms of these structures, some still in use but many now abandoned and decayed. Massive industrial complexes like the Dnieper River Dam and MoGES, which supplies electricity to the city of Moscow; vast communal houses for workers, including Ginzburg's Narkomfin; commercial buildings and government offices; and smaller clubs and theaters were all built in this brief period. In an incisive essay, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen surveys the history of the period, providing a context for the emergence of this startling new architecture in parallel to contemporary experiments in Europe.

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Le tour de Paris: les promenades aériennes de Roger Henrard

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Étonnante rencontre que celle qui s'est accomplie dans les airs pendant plus de deux décennies entre un homme, un avion et Paris. L'homme, Roger Henrard, mène la vie de l'industriel, du pilote et du photographe.

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Luminous buildings : architecture of the night

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At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the newly erected Eiffel Tower became one of the first icons of illuminated architecture, a nocturnal "lighthouse." It was not until decades later, in the 1920s, when a building’s evening façade became a central issue for residential and commercial architects, who began to look for avant-garde and aesthetically striking ways to light up their ever-taller works in all the major cities of the world. Both European and American architects wanted to distance their buildings from the garish electric signage that had come to dominate the street-level cityscape, so they worked with more delicately colored floodlights. Contemporary architects use many of the same techniques today, aided by technological advances that allow them to be implemented in particularly dramatic ways. "Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the NIght" opens a dialogue on the often overlooked but exciting connections between architecture, technology and light, offering points of reference in historical buildings and utopias, more recent designs, paintings and photographs of nighttime facades, and scholarly texts.

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Architecture du XXe siècle en France: modernité et continuité

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Interpréter l'architecture conçue et réalisée en France, entre la tour Eiffel et la Galerie des machines de l'Exposition de 1889 et les oeuvres foisonnantes d'aujourd'hui, suppose de la penser dans l'ensemble de la production mondiale. L'ouvrage de Jean-Louis Cohen présente ainsi les réalisations précoces et les développements récents dans un cadre élargi, mettant en évidence les continuités, tout autant que les ruptures introduites par les idées nouvelles et leurs applications dans la production courante.

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Architecture, modernité et modernisation

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L’histoire de l’architecture ne cesse de conjuguer deux regards : celui, panoramique, portant sur les ensembles urbains, révélant les politiques sociales ou techniques, et celui sur les édifices et leurs intérieurs, vus en gros plan, qui reflète les idéaux et l’engagement de leurs auteurs et de leurs habitants. Faisant dialoguer théoriciens, philosophes et écrivains avec les architectes du xxe siècle (Mies van der Rohe, Wright ou Le Corbusier), Jean-Louis Cohen suggère une approche renouvelée, ancrée dans l’histoire culturelle et dans l’humain, de l’architecture comme questionnement et comme pratique.

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Le Corbusier: the built work

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Le Corbusier is widely acknowledged as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. As extensively researched and documented as his works are, however, they have never been exhaustively surveyed in photographs until now. Photographer Richard Pare has crossed the globe for years to document the extant works of Le Corbusier- from his first villas in Switzerland to his mid-career works in his role as the first global architect in locations as far-flung as Argentina and Russia, and his late works, including his sole North American project, at Harvard University, and an extensive civic plan for Chandigarh, India.