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Ground zero
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How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values. Art has succumbed to the(...)
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How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values. Art has succumbed to the(...)
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How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values. Art has succumbed to the techniques of advertising and in politics, the battle for hearts and minds has become a mere convergence of opinion. TV ratings have triumphed over universal suffrage. The events of September 11 reflect both the manipulation of a global sub-proletariat and the delusions of an élite of rich students and technicians who resemble the 'suicidal members of the Heaven's Gate cybersect'. And, in this post-humanist dystopia, we are morally rudderless before the threat of biological manipulations as yet undreamt.
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How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values. Art has succumbed to the techniques of advertising and in politics, the battle for hearts and minds has become a mere convergence of opinion. TV ratings have triumphed over universal suffrage. The events of September 11 reflect both the manipulation of a global sub-proletariat and the delusions of an élite of rich students and technicians who resemble the 'suicidal members of the Heaven's Gate cybersect'. And, in this post-humanist dystopia, we are morally rudderless before the threat of biological manipulations as yet undreamt.
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September 2002, New York
September 2002, New York
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Architectural Theory
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"Tracing architecture" looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.
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"Tracing architecture" looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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December 2002, Malden / Oxford / Melbourne / Berlin
December 2002, Malden / Oxford / Melbourne / Berlin
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Tracing architecture : the aesthetics of antiquarianism
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"Tracing architecture" looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.
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"Tracing architecture" looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.
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December 2002, Malden / Oxford / Melbourne / Berlin
December 2002, Malden / Oxford / Melbourne / Berlin
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Architectural Theory
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The first issue of the legendary architecture journal "Pencil Points" appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of "The Architectural Review", and merged with "Progressive Architecture" in 1943, "Pencil Points" became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It(...)
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The first issue of the legendary architecture journal "Pencil Points" appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of "The Architectural Review", and merged with "Progressive Architecture" in 1943, "Pencil Points" became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It(...)
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Architectural Theory
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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Pencil points reader : a journal for the drafting room, 1920-1943
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The first issue of the legendary architecture journal "Pencil Points" appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of "The Architectural Review", and merged with "Progressive Architecture" in 1943, "Pencil Points" became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It also established the agenda in architectural theory: multivolume pieces by John Harbeson, Talbot Hamlin, Hugh Ferris, and others dealt with major issues that are still relevant today - architectural education and practice, small-house design and portable housing, city planning, and the influence (or not) of modernism. Items like George Nelson's series of reports from Europe in the early 1930's, H. Van Buren Magonigle's diatribes against modernism, and a glossary of École des Beaux-Arts terms sit side-by-side with the best architectural drawings and photographs of the 20th century. "Pencil Points Reader" re-publishes the most important essays from the journal's 23 years, arranged chronologically, and offers an insider's introduction by John Morris Dixon, the former executive editor of "Progressive Architecture".
Pencil points reader : a journal for the drafting room, 1920-1943
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The first issue of the legendary architecture journal "Pencil Points" appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of "The Architectural Review", and merged with "Progressive Architecture" in 1943, "Pencil Points" became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It also established the agenda in architectural theory: multivolume pieces by John Harbeson, Talbot Hamlin, Hugh Ferris, and others dealt with major issues that are still relevant today - architectural education and practice, small-house design and portable housing, city planning, and the influence (or not) of modernism. Items like George Nelson's series of reports from Europe in the early 1930's, H. Van Buren Magonigle's diatribes against modernism, and a glossary of École des Beaux-Arts terms sit side-by-side with the best architectural drawings and photographs of the 20th century. "Pencil Points Reader" re-publishes the most important essays from the journal's 23 years, arranged chronologically, and offers an insider's introduction by John Morris Dixon, the former executive editor of "Progressive Architecture".
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, "Designing for diversity" reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color. Drawing on interviews and surveys of hundreds of architects,(...)
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Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, "Designing for diversity" reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color. Drawing on interviews and surveys of hundreds of architects,(...)
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Architectural Theory
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April 2002, Urbana and Chicago
April 2002, Urbana and Chicago
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Designing for diversity : gender, race. and ethnicity in the architectural profession
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Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, "Designing for diversity" reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color. Drawing on interviews and surveys of hundreds of architects, Kathryn H. Anthony outlines some of the forms of discrimination that recur in architecture, such as being confined to certain kinds of positions, typically interior design for women, government work for African Americans, and computer-aided design for Asian-American architects. Anthony discusses the profession's attitude toward flexible schedules and part-time contracts and identifies strategies that have helped underrepresented individuals advance in the profession. Given the traditional mismatch between diverse consumers and predominantly white male producers of the built environment, plus the shifting population balance toward communities of color, Anthony contends that the architectural profession staves off true diversity at its own peril. Through her book, practicing architects, managers of firms, and educators will learn how to create conditions more welcoming to a diversity of users as well as designers of the built environment.
Designing for diversity : gender, race. and ethnicity in the architectural profession
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Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, "Designing for diversity" reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color. Drawing on interviews and surveys of hundreds of architects, Kathryn H. Anthony outlines some of the forms of discrimination that recur in architecture, such as being confined to certain kinds of positions, typically interior design for women, government work for African Americans, and computer-aided design for Asian-American architects. Anthony discusses the profession's attitude toward flexible schedules and part-time contracts and identifies strategies that have helped underrepresented individuals advance in the profession. Given the traditional mismatch between diverse consumers and predominantly white male producers of the built environment, plus the shifting population balance toward communities of color, Anthony contends that the architectural profession staves off true diversity at its own peril. Through her book, practicing architects, managers of firms, and educators will learn how to create conditions more welcoming to a diversity of users as well as designers of the built environment.
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April 2002, Urbana and Chicago
April 2002, Urbana and Chicago
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À partir d'une collection de lieux choisis, amplement phototographiés et dessinés par Dominique Spinetta, s'élabore un enseignement qui lie intimement la compréhension des formes à leurs usages. Au fil des démonstrations, le lecteur pourra se forger un regard de concepteur, capable de reconnaître - pour les transformer - les logiques des espaces bâtis.
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À partir d'une collection de lieux choisis, amplement phototographiés et dessinés par Dominique Spinetta, s'élabore un enseignement qui lie intimement la compréhension des formes à leurs usages. Au fil des démonstrations, le lecteur pourra se forger un regard de concepteur, capable de reconnaître - pour les transformer - les logiques des espaces bâtis.
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L'apprentissage du regard : leçons d'architecture de Dominique Spinetta
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À partir d'une collection de lieux choisis, amplement phototographiés et dessinés par Dominique Spinetta, s'élabore un enseignement qui lie intimement la compréhension des formes à leurs usages. Au fil des démonstrations, le lecteur pourra se forger un regard de concepteur, capable de reconnaître - pour les transformer - les logiques des espaces bâtis.
L'apprentissage du regard : leçons d'architecture de Dominique Spinetta
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À partir d'une collection de lieux choisis, amplement phototographiés et dessinés par Dominique Spinetta, s'élabore un enseignement qui lie intimement la compréhension des formes à leurs usages. Au fil des démonstrations, le lecteur pourra se forger un regard de concepteur, capable de reconnaître - pour les transformer - les logiques des espaces bâtis.
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May 2002, Paris
May 2002, Paris
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Infinity and perspective
Infinity and perspective
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Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open(...)
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Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open(...)
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Infinity and perspective
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Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom. But more important to Harries is to show how modernist self-assertion is shadowed by nihilism and what it might mean to step out of that shadow. Looking at a small number of medieval and Renaissance texts, as well as some paintings, he uncovers the threshold that separates the modern from the premodern world. At the same time, he illuminates that other, more questionable threshold, between the modern and the postmodern. Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity.
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Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom. But more important to Harries is to show how modernist self-assertion is shadowed by nihilism and what it might mean to step out of that shadow. Looking at a small number of medieval and Renaissance texts, as well as some paintings, he uncovers the threshold that separates the modern from the premodern world. At the same time, he illuminates that other, more questionable threshold, between the modern and the postmodern. Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity.
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October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
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Architectural Theory
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"Vitruvius’s De architectura" is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless(...)
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"Vitruvius’s De architectura" is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless(...)
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October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
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Vitruvius: Writing the body of architecture
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"Vitruvius’s De architectura" is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work’s meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius’s purpose in writing what he calls "the whole body of architecture." Specifically, Vitruvius’s aim was to present his discipline as the means for making the emperor’s body congruent with the imagined body of the world he would rule.
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"Vitruvius’s De architectura" is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work’s meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius’s purpose in writing what he calls "the whole body of architecture." Specifically, Vitruvius’s aim was to present his discipline as the means for making the emperor’s body congruent with the imagined body of the world he would rule.
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October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
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The spirit of terrorism
The spirit of terrorism
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«In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious.»
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«In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious.»
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September 2002, London / New York
September 2002, London / New York
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The spirit of terrorism
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«In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious.»
The spirit of terrorism
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«In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious.»
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September 2002, London / New York
September 2002, London / New York
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Masse, mémoire, fiction
Masse, mémoire, fiction
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Réflexion sur l'importance de l'architecture comme enjeu civilisationnel, c'est-à-dire comme moyen de pérennisation de la civilisation actuelle. La deuxième partie est une étude comparative, entre la France et le Japon, de leur politique respective en matière de patrimoine...
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Réflexion sur l'importance de l'architecture comme enjeu civilisationnel, c'est-à-dire comme moyen de pérennisation de la civilisation actuelle. La deuxième partie est une étude comparative, entre la France et le Japon, de leur politique respective en matière de patrimoine...
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Réflexion sur l'importance de l'architecture comme enjeu civilisationnel, c'est-à-dire comme moyen de pérennisation de la civilisation actuelle. La deuxième partie est une étude comparative, entre la France et le Japon, de leur politique respective en matière de patrimoine...
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Réflexion sur l'importance de l'architecture comme enjeu civilisationnel, c'est-à-dire comme moyen de pérennisation de la civilisation actuelle. La deuxième partie est une étude comparative, entre la France et le Japon, de leur politique respective en matière de patrimoine...
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May 2002, Paris
May 2002, Paris
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Architectural Theory
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Découvrir l'architecture
Découvrir l'architecture
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Loin des références culturelles françaises, Rasmussen fait découvrir ce que sont les espaces traversés tous les jours, ce qui fait la qualité d'un lieu, le pourquoi du charme des bâtiments anciens les plus anodins... ce qu'est enfin fondamentalement l'architecture .
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Loin des références culturelles françaises, Rasmussen fait découvrir ce que sont les espaces traversés tous les jours, ce qui fait la qualité d'un lieu, le pourquoi du charme des bâtiments anciens les plus anodins... ce qu'est enfin fondamentalement l'architecture .
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Loin des références culturelles françaises, Rasmussen fait découvrir ce que sont les espaces traversés tous les jours, ce qui fait la qualité d'un lieu, le pourquoi du charme des bâtiments anciens les plus anodins... ce qu'est enfin fondamentalement l'architecture .
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Loin des références culturelles françaises, Rasmussen fait découvrir ce que sont les espaces traversés tous les jours, ce qui fait la qualité d'un lieu, le pourquoi du charme des bâtiments anciens les plus anodins... ce qu'est enfin fondamentalement l'architecture .
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April 2002, Paris
April 2002, Paris
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
