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Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when—breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer—architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started(...)
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Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when—breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer—architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started(...)
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The judicious eye: architecture against the other arts
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Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when—breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer—architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started to come together again, The Judicious Eye is the definitive history of the relationships between painting, sculpture, and architecture as they have shifted over the past three centuries. Joseph Rykwert locates the first major shift during the Enlightenment, when key philosophers drew implied and explicit distinctions between the visual arts and architecture. As time progressed, architects came to see themselves as part of an established profession, while visual artists increasingly moved toward society’s margins, deepening the chasm between them. Detailing the eventual attempts to heal this breach, Rykwert concludes in the mid-twentieth century, when the artistic avant-garde turned to architects in its battle against a stagnant society. The Judicious Eye, then, provides a necessary foundation for understanding architecture and visual art in the twenty-first century, as they continue to break new ground by growing closer to their intertwined roots.
The judicious eye: architecture against the other arts
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Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when—breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer—architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started to come together again, The Judicious Eye is the definitive history of the relationships between painting, sculpture, and architecture as they have shifted over the past three centuries. Joseph Rykwert locates the first major shift during the Enlightenment, when key philosophers drew implied and explicit distinctions between the visual arts and architecture. As time progressed, architects came to see themselves as part of an established profession, while visual artists increasingly moved toward society’s margins, deepening the chasm between them. Detailing the eventual attempts to heal this breach, Rykwert concludes in the mid-twentieth century, when the artistic avant-garde turned to architects in its battle against a stagnant society. The Judicious Eye, then, provides a necessary foundation for understanding architecture and visual art in the twenty-first century, as they continue to break new ground by growing closer to their intertwined roots.
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May 2008, Chicago, London
May 2008, Chicago, London
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In Becoming Beside Ourselves, the renowed cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and(...)
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In Becoming Beside Ourselves, the renowed cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and(...)
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Becoming beside ourselves: the alphabet, ghosts, and distributed human being
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In Becoming Beside Ourselves, the renowed cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and affect from its inception until the present. Now its grip on Western consciousness is giving way to virtual technologies and networked media, which are reconfiguring human subjectivity just as alphabetic texts have done for millenia. Brian Rotman is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio University.
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In Becoming Beside Ourselves, the renowed cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West's dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and affect from its inception until the present. Now its grip on Western consciousness is giving way to virtual technologies and networked media, which are reconfiguring human subjectivity just as alphabetic texts have done for millenia. Brian Rotman is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio University.
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May 2008, Durham
May 2008, Durham
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The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed. Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is(...)
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The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed. Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is(...)
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April 2008, Minneapolis
April 2008, Minneapolis
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Writing and seeing architecture
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The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed. Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is unpredictably similar. Writing and Seeing Architecture unveils a candid conversation between Christian de Portzamparc, celebrated French architect, and influential theorist Philippe Sollers that challenges us to see the analogous nature of writing and architecture. Their fascinating discussion offers a renewal of visionary architectural thinking by invoking past literary ideals that sought to liberate society through the reinvention of writing itself. Urging that new rules be set for each creation rather than resorting to limitations of the capitalist society, the authors’ daring confrontation of the interactions between writing and designing a space forcefully demonstrates the importance of intellectuals and practitioners intervening in the public sphere.
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The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed. Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is unpredictably similar. Writing and Seeing Architecture unveils a candid conversation between Christian de Portzamparc, celebrated French architect, and influential theorist Philippe Sollers that challenges us to see the analogous nature of writing and architecture. Their fascinating discussion offers a renewal of visionary architectural thinking by invoking past literary ideals that sought to liberate society through the reinvention of writing itself. Urging that new rules be set for each creation rather than resorting to limitations of the capitalist society, the authors’ daring confrontation of the interactions between writing and designing a space forcefully demonstrates the importance of intellectuals and practitioners intervening in the public sphere.
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April 2008, Minneapolis
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Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between(...)
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Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between(...)
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Wittgenstein's house: language, space, & architecture
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Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, but a conceptual position as well, the book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases. The book advances the radical proposition that the field in which architecture and philosophy operate includes linguistic and spatial practices. It develops innovative forms of interdisciplinary analyses to demonstrate that the philosophical positions put forth by Wittgenstein's two main works are literally unthinkable outside of their respective conceptions of space: the view from above in the early work and the view from within constructed by the late work. To examine the manner in which Wittgenstein's practice of architecture insinuated itself into his philosophy, the author interweaves in-depth analyses of the spatial constructs underpinning the early and late philosophies with conceptual, formal and operative discussions of the design of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house. Together these discussions reveal how Wittgenstein's practice of architecture engaged philosophical concepts, through which it influenced Wittgenstein's philosophy of language. At the heart of this approach is the finding that the philosophical concepts at the core of Wittgenstein's philosophy areindeed spatial ones, including his concerns with the limits of language, the boundary between showing and saying, the intricate textual numbering systems he devises, the relationship between the interiority of the subject and the publicness of language, and the formative principle of family resemblance.
Wittgenstein's house: language, space, & architecture
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Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, but a conceptual position as well, the book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases. The book advances the radical proposition that the field in which architecture and philosophy operate includes linguistic and spatial practices. It develops innovative forms of interdisciplinary analyses to demonstrate that the philosophical positions put forth by Wittgenstein's two main works are literally unthinkable outside of their respective conceptions of space: the view from above in the early work and the view from within constructed by the late work. To examine the manner in which Wittgenstein's practice of architecture insinuated itself into his philosophy, the author interweaves in-depth analyses of the spatial constructs underpinning the early and late philosophies with conceptual, formal and operative discussions of the design of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house. Together these discussions reveal how Wittgenstein's practice of architecture engaged philosophical concepts, through which it influenced Wittgenstein's philosophy of language. At the heart of this approach is the finding that the philosophical concepts at the core of Wittgenstein's philosophy areindeed spatial ones, including his concerns with the limits of language, the boundary between showing and saying, the intricate textual numbering systems he devises, the relationship between the interiority of the subject and the publicness of language, and the formative principle of family resemblance.
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May 2008, New York
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In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author(...)
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In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author(...)
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Housing problems: writing and architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud and Heidegger
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In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house—an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish such a synthesis through the concept of Bildung, the book traces the destabilization of this symmetry between house and self in Gothic literature and in narratives surrounding the founding of psychoanalysis. The interest in architecture holds open the tension between the generalizing figures of architectonics and the singular quality of housing features. These continue to mark theoretical thinking even as they dissolve and withdraw, as in Heidegger's "house of Being."
Housing problems: writing and architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud and Heidegger
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In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house—an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish such a synthesis through the concept of Bildung, the book traces the destabilization of this symmetry between house and self in Gothic literature and in narratives surrounding the founding of psychoanalysis. The interest in architecture holds open the tension between the generalizing figures of architectonics and the singular quality of housing features. These continue to mark theoretical thinking even as they dissolve and withdraw, as in Heidegger's "house of Being."
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June 2008
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
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Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
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January 1900
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul(...)
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul(...)
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Artificial light : a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other architectural fictions
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul Shepheard, Roger Connah, and Rebecca Solnit, "Artificial light" is the beautifully written and visually engaging debut of a dynamic new voice in the world of architectural criticism. Keith Mitnick is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate-level studios and seminars in architectural criticism, and a founding principal of Mitnick Roddier Hicks.
Artificial light : a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other architectural fictions
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul Shepheard, Roger Connah, and Rebecca Solnit, "Artificial light" is the beautifully written and visually engaging debut of a dynamic new voice in the world of architectural criticism. Keith Mitnick is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate-level studios and seminars in architectural criticism, and a founding principal of Mitnick Roddier Hicks.
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March 2008, New York
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Trying Leviathan
Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
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Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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October 2007, Princeton
October 2007, Princeton
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource(...)
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource(...)
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February 2008, London, New York
February 2008, London, New York
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Supercrit 2 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.
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In Supercrit 2: 'Learning from Las Vegas', Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the couple revisit their infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit. This innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture student.
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February 2008, London, New York
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde.(...)
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde.(...)
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April 2008, Rennes
April 2008, Rennes
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Les monuments historiques de 1940 à 1959: administration, architecture, urbanisme
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde. Dans ce projet, les monuments anciens ont un rôle de tout premier plan. Il ne s'agit pas seulement, en effet, de relever les ruines, mais aussi d'inventer une nouvelle modernité architecturale et urbaine appuyée sur la tradition et le génie artistique propre à la France. Le service des Monuments historiques se rapproche des services de l'urbanisme et de la reconstruction afin d'inventer le nouveau cadre bâti de la France régénérée. Juin l944-Mai 1945: nouvelles destructions et Libération. A la réflexion théorique succède l'action, dans un pays exsangue. Commence le grand chantier de la reconstruction, elles désillusions: crédits insuffisants, rupture du consensus avec les responsables de la construction. Refusant l'habituelle opposition entre architecture et patrimoine, cet ouvrage envisage le monument historique comme un élément à part entière de l'histoire de l'architecture. Il retrace son itinéraire politique et social autant que son destin matériel dans une période agitée, caractérisée par une quantité d'interventions absolument sans précédent.
Les monuments historiques de 1940 à 1959: administration, architecture, urbanisme
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Juin 1940 : les combats et la défaite. Les centres historiques sont dévastés, les châteaux réquisitionnés, les monuments effondrés. Le régime autoritaire de Vichy entreprend le " redressement moral " du pays. Contre l'internationalisme et le cosmopolitisme des avant-gardes, l'architecture française doit retrouver sa grandeur nationale et sa place éminente dans le monde. Dans ce projet, les monuments anciens ont un rôle de tout premier plan. Il ne s'agit pas seulement, en effet, de relever les ruines, mais aussi d'inventer une nouvelle modernité architecturale et urbaine appuyée sur la tradition et le génie artistique propre à la France. Le service des Monuments historiques se rapproche des services de l'urbanisme et de la reconstruction afin d'inventer le nouveau cadre bâti de la France régénérée. Juin l944-Mai 1945: nouvelles destructions et Libération. A la réflexion théorique succède l'action, dans un pays exsangue. Commence le grand chantier de la reconstruction, elles désillusions: crédits insuffisants, rupture du consensus avec les responsables de la construction. Refusant l'habituelle opposition entre architecture et patrimoine, cet ouvrage envisage le monument historique comme un élément à part entière de l'histoire de l'architecture. Il retrace son itinéraire politique et social autant que son destin matériel dans une période agitée, caractérisée par une quantité d'interventions absolument sans précédent.
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April 2008, Rennes
April 2008, Rennes
