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In 2005, the first architectural festival in Paris. 26 architectural installations encouraged for few days people to experiment the new territories of contemporary architecture.
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In 2005, the first architectural festival in Paris. 26 architectural installations encouraged for few days people to experiment the new territories of contemporary architecture.
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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September 2005, Paris
September 2005, Paris
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Des architectures vives : 26 installations architecturales
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In 2005, the first architectural festival in Paris. 26 architectural installations encouraged for few days people to experiment the new territories of contemporary architecture.
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Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. "NorCalMod" dispels that notion in an illustrated history showcasing examples of its contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and(...)
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Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. "NorCalMod" dispels that notion in an illustrated history showcasing examples of its contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and(...)
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July 2006, San Francisco
July 2006, San Francisco
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NorCalMod: icons of Northern California modernism
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Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. "NorCalMod" dispels that notion in an illustrated history showcasing examples of its contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and Crafts buildings already existed?) pulling heavyweights such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Walter Gropius into the fray. Ultimately, that existing "Bay Region Style" would remain the area's architectural hallmark, but not before hundreds of important modernist projects, many still standing yet unjustly neglected today, had been established. The photos in this book open our eyes to a long-lost chapter in the history of California architecture.
NorCalMod: icons of Northern California modernism
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Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. "NorCalMod" dispels that notion in an illustrated history showcasing examples of its contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and Crafts buildings already existed?) pulling heavyweights such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Walter Gropius into the fray. Ultimately, that existing "Bay Region Style" would remain the area's architectural hallmark, but not before hundreds of important modernist projects, many still standing yet unjustly neglected today, had been established. The photos in this book open our eyes to a long-lost chapter in the history of California architecture.
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July 2006, San Francisco
July 2006, San Francisco
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The taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific managment and rise of modernist architecture
The taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific managment and rise of modernist architecture
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new(...)
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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July 2006, Princeton / Oxford
July 2006, Princeton / Oxford
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The taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific managment and rise of modernist architecture
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In "The taylorized beauty of the mechanical", Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management - one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like--and beautiful--architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his Towards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, "The taylorized beauty of the mechanical" provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In "The taylorized beauty of the mechanical", Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management - one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like--and beautiful--architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his Towards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, "The taylorized beauty of the mechanical" provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.
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July 2006, Princeton / Oxford
July 2006, Princeton / Oxford
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Instructive publication exploring different conceptions of ‘dwelling', through a juxtaposition of analyses and thought experiments in essay form, examples from the history of culture, and designs by renowned architects. Features essays by Beatriz Colomina, Gerard van Zeijl and Joan van Dooren which explore respectively, the exposition of domestic life, the historical(...)
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Instructive publication exploring different conceptions of ‘dwelling', through a juxtaposition of analyses and thought experiments in essay form, examples from the history of culture, and designs by renowned architects. Features essays by Beatriz Colomina, Gerard van Zeijl and Joan van Dooren which explore respectively, the exposition of domestic life, the historical(...)
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Dwelling as a figure of thought
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Instructive publication exploring different conceptions of ‘dwelling', through a juxtaposition of analyses and thought experiments in essay form, examples from the history of culture, and designs by renowned architects. Features essays by Beatriz Colomina, Gerard van Zeijl and Joan van Dooren which explore respectively, the exposition of domestic life, the historical phenomenon of dwelling and the antithesis between shelter and nomadism.
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Instructive publication exploring different conceptions of ‘dwelling', through a juxtaposition of analyses and thought experiments in essay form, examples from the history of culture, and designs by renowned architects. Features essays by Beatriz Colomina, Gerard van Zeijl and Joan van Dooren which explore respectively, the exposition of domestic life, the historical phenomenon of dwelling and the antithesis between shelter and nomadism.
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May 2006, Amsterdam
May 2006, Amsterdam
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Belgium new architecture 3
Belgium new architecture 3
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The third volume of this series combines architectural projects from all three regions of Belgium and highlights the continuing importance of a young and diverse generation of architects. In total 65 buildings and public projects are surveyed, ranging from commercial and residential developments to educational facilities and imaginary spaces. Each project is accompanied(...)
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The third volume of this series combines architectural projects from all three regions of Belgium and highlights the continuing importance of a young and diverse generation of architects. In total 65 buildings and public projects are surveyed, ranging from commercial and residential developments to educational facilities and imaginary spaces. Each project is accompanied(...)
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January 2006, Bruxelles
January 2006, Bruxelles
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Belgium new architecture 3
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The third volume of this series combines architectural projects from all three regions of Belgium and highlights the continuing importance of a young and diverse generation of architects. In total 65 buildings and public projects are surveyed, ranging from commercial and residential developments to educational facilities and imaginary spaces. Each project is accompanied by a plan, elevation, images and text.
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The third volume of this series combines architectural projects from all three regions of Belgium and highlights the continuing importance of a young and diverse generation of architects. In total 65 buildings and public projects are surveyed, ranging from commercial and residential developments to educational facilities and imaginary spaces. Each project is accompanied by a plan, elevation, images and text.
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January 2006, Bruxelles
January 2006, Bruxelles
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In this wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves an integration of political and cultural developments. Comparing the situation in eight cities—among them Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb—the author highlights contrasts,(...)
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In this wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves an integration of political and cultural developments. Comparing the situation in eight cities—among them Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb—the author highlights contrasts,(...)
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April 2006, New Haven, London
April 2006, New Haven, London
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Art, design & archtiecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920
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In this wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves an integration of political and cultural developments. Comparing the situation in eight cities—among them Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb—the author highlights contrasts, rivalries, parallels, and interconnections across this colorful and important region. The book deals with all the chief ethnic/national categories of Austria-Hungary and embraces all the visual arts. Focusing on their public display, appraisal, and consumption, Clegg shows how the harmonious/antagonistic coexistence of institutions, publications, and events gave rise to the dynamic art life of a period that would end in a turning point for Central Europe. As revealed, this was a time and place marked by a simultaneous fear and celebration of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity that has enormous international resonance a century later.
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In this wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves an integration of political and cultural developments. Comparing the situation in eight cities—among them Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb—the author highlights contrasts, rivalries, parallels, and interconnections across this colorful and important region. The book deals with all the chief ethnic/national categories of Austria-Hungary and embraces all the visual arts. Focusing on their public display, appraisal, and consumption, Clegg shows how the harmonious/antagonistic coexistence of institutions, publications, and events gave rise to the dynamic art life of a period that would end in a turning point for Central Europe. As revealed, this was a time and place marked by a simultaneous fear and celebration of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity that has enormous international resonance a century later.
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April 2006, New Haven, London
April 2006, New Haven, London
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Vienna is a Central European metropolis with a two-thousand-year history and a future as centre of a region of prosperous economic growth. It is also a city that has traditionally stood for high quality architecture and always been at the hub of the international debate on modern architecture. Exemplary on an international level is the current policy on the part of the(...)
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Vienna is a Central European metropolis with a two-thousand-year history and a future as centre of a region of prosperous economic growth. It is also a city that has traditionally stood for high quality architecture and always been at the hub of the international debate on modern architecture. Exemplary on an international level is the current policy on the part of the(...)
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December 2005, Wien, New York
December 2005, Wien, New York
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Vienna : new urban architecture
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Vienna is a Central European metropolis with a two-thousand-year history and a future as centre of a region of prosperous economic growth. It is also a city that has traditionally stood for high quality architecture and always been at the hub of the international debate on modern architecture. Exemplary on an international level is the current policy on the part of the urban planners to achieve quality even in large scale urban renewal projects and areas of urban development. The reader is offered an insight into current realizations and projects in the sector.
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Vienna is a Central European metropolis with a two-thousand-year history and a future as centre of a region of prosperous economic growth. It is also a city that has traditionally stood for high quality architecture and always been at the hub of the international debate on modern architecture. Exemplary on an international level is the current policy on the part of the urban planners to achieve quality even in large scale urban renewal projects and areas of urban development. The reader is offered an insight into current realizations and projects in the sector.
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December 2005, Wien, New York
December 2005, Wien, New York
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Learning from Christiania
Learning from Christiania
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Can this social experiment point the way forward for modern architecture and urban design? What lessons can Christiania offer our rationally competitive world? Can the experiment help to enrich and renew our cold architecture and inflexible planning principles? Which elements of Christiania’s self-appointed administration work and which do not? Text in English and Danish.
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Can this social experiment point the way forward for modern architecture and urban design? What lessons can Christiania offer our rationally competitive world? Can the experiment help to enrich and renew our cold architecture and inflexible planning principles? Which elements of Christiania’s self-appointed administration work and which do not? Text in English and Danish.
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January 1900, Copenhagen
January 1900, Copenhagen
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Learning from Christiania
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Can this social experiment point the way forward for modern architecture and urban design? What lessons can Christiania offer our rationally competitive world? Can the experiment help to enrich and renew our cold architecture and inflexible planning principles? Which elements of Christiania’s self-appointed administration work and which do not? Text in English and Danish.
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Can this social experiment point the way forward for modern architecture and urban design? What lessons can Christiania offer our rationally competitive world? Can the experiment help to enrich and renew our cold architecture and inflexible planning principles? Which elements of Christiania’s self-appointed administration work and which do not? Text in English and Danish.
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January 1900, Copenhagen
January 1900, Copenhagen
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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an(...)
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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an(...)
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April 2006, Chicago, London
April 2006, Chicago, London
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Millennium park : creating a Chicago landscape
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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an unprecedented combination of distinctive architecture, monumental sculpture, and innovative landscaping. Including structures and works by Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, and Kathryn Gustafson, the park represents the collaborative efforts of hundreds to turn an unused railroad yard in the heart of the city into a world-class civic space—and, in the process, to create an entirely new kind of cultural philanthropy. Timothy Gilfoyle here offers a biography of this phenomenal undertaking, beginning before 1850 when the site of the park, the “city’s front yard,” was part of Lake Michigan. Gilfoyle studied the history of downtown; spent years with the planners, artists, and public officials behind Millennium Park; documented it at every stage of its construction; and traced the skeins of financing through municipal government, global corporations, private foundations, and wealthy civic leaders. The result is an illustrated testament to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a monumental scale. And underlying Gilfoyle’s history is also a revealing study of the globalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power. Born out of civic idealism, raised in political controversy, and maturing into a symbol of the new Chicago, Millennium Park is truly a twenty-first-century landmark, and it now has the history it deserves.
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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an unprecedented combination of distinctive architecture, monumental sculpture, and innovative landscaping. Including structures and works by Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, and Kathryn Gustafson, the park represents the collaborative efforts of hundreds to turn an unused railroad yard in the heart of the city into a world-class civic space—and, in the process, to create an entirely new kind of cultural philanthropy. Timothy Gilfoyle here offers a biography of this phenomenal undertaking, beginning before 1850 when the site of the park, the “city’s front yard,” was part of Lake Michigan. Gilfoyle studied the history of downtown; spent years with the planners, artists, and public officials behind Millennium Park; documented it at every stage of its construction; and traced the skeins of financing through municipal government, global corporations, private foundations, and wealthy civic leaders. The result is an illustrated testament to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a monumental scale. And underlying Gilfoyle’s history is also a revealing study of the globalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power. Born out of civic idealism, raised in political controversy, and maturing into a symbol of the new Chicago, Millennium Park is truly a twenty-first-century landmark, and it now has the history it deserves.
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April 2006, Chicago, London
April 2006, Chicago, London
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Berlin 1919-1933
Berlin 1919-1933
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Berlin, sous la République de Weimar. Quatorze ans seulement de démocratie après l'Empire et avant le IIIe Reich, quatorze ans de productions artistiques, d'innovations techniques et de bouillonnement intellectuel exceptionnels sur fond d'inflation, de chômage, de luttes sociales. Métropole ouvrière, plus grande cité commerciale d'Europe, capitale de la rationalisation(...)
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Berlin, sous la République de Weimar. Quatorze ans seulement de démocratie après l'Empire et avant le IIIe Reich, quatorze ans de productions artistiques, d'innovations techniques et de bouillonnement intellectuel exceptionnels sur fond d'inflation, de chômage, de luttes sociales. Métropole ouvrière, plus grande cité commerciale d'Europe, capitale de la rationalisation(...)
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Berlin, sous la République de Weimar. Quatorze ans seulement de démocratie après l'Empire et avant le IIIe Reich, quatorze ans de productions artistiques, d'innovations techniques et de bouillonnement intellectuel exceptionnels sur fond d'inflation, de chômage, de luttes sociales. Métropole ouvrière, plus grande cité commerciale d'Europe, capitale de la rationalisation dans tous les domaines industriels et domestiques, Berlin ressemble alors à une grouillante métropole américaine avec, dans une atmosphère d'apocalypse plus que d'"Années folles", ses hauts-lieux, ses bas-fonds et ses innombrables théâtres, cinémas, cabarets, médias et grands magasins.
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Berlin, sous la République de Weimar. Quatorze ans seulement de démocratie après l'Empire et avant le IIIe Reich, quatorze ans de productions artistiques, d'innovations techniques et de bouillonnement intellectuel exceptionnels sur fond d'inflation, de chômage, de luttes sociales. Métropole ouvrière, plus grande cité commerciale d'Europe, capitale de la rationalisation dans tous les domaines industriels et domestiques, Berlin ressemble alors à une grouillante métropole américaine avec, dans une atmosphère d'apocalypse plus que d'"Années folles", ses hauts-lieux, ses bas-fonds et ses innombrables théâtres, cinémas, cabarets, médias et grands magasins.
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January 2006, Paris
January 2006, Paris
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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