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C'est la République de Weimar au cours des années 1918 à 1933 qui propulsa Berlin au zénith. Ainsi, le Berlin des années vingt a donné naissance à une culture qui a totalement vécu de la politisation. Il y germait des utopies qui, en cette époque de crise, traçaient des perspectives de progrès. La communication prenait son essor dans les sphères populaires par le biais(...)
Berlin, les années vingt: art et culture 1918-1933
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C'est la République de Weimar au cours des années 1918 à 1933 qui propulsa Berlin au zénith. Ainsi, le Berlin des années vingt a donné naissance à une culture qui a totalement vécu de la politisation. Il y germait des utopies qui, en cette époque de crise, traçaient des perspectives de progrès. La communication prenait son essor dans les sphères populaires par le biais de la photo, du cinéma, des affiches, de l'agit-prop, du cabaret et des variétés. Grâce à ces techniques, ces millions de Berlinois ne formaient plus une masse mais des citoyens : ils acquéraient à la fois un accès et une dignité à la culture. Ces évolutions venaient de la masse, mais il y avait une avant-garde pour les faire entrer dans les pratiques et les prémices des beaux-arts. Il suffit d'aligner quelques noms, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch pour l'aventure Dada ; Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch pour le cinéma et la photographie ; Mies van der Rohe, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky pour les grandes conquêtes utopistes ou fonctionnelles de l'architecture, du design et de l'oeuvre d'art totale, pour prendre la mesure de ces années de révolutions et de créations tous azimuts.
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August 2006
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Toutes les étapes du concours biennal de microarchitecture sur le thème des minimaisons roulantes. Concours organisé par la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine/Institut français d'architecture et les Grand Ateliers de l'Isle d'Abeau, avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine (DAPA) et la(...)
Mini Maousse 2: carnet de route du concours de microarchitecture 2005-2006
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Toutes les étapes du concours biennal de microarchitecture sur le thème des minimaisons roulantes. Concours organisé par la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine/Institut français d'architecture et les Grand Ateliers de l'Isle d'Abeau, avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine (DAPA) et la Délégation aux arts plastiques (DAP).
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September 2006
History since 1900, Reference Books
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The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with(...)
The lower east side remebered and revisited
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The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with wealth and gentrification changing the character of the neighborhood. Chronicling these developments, along with the hidden gems that still speak of a vibrant immigrant identity, Joyce Mendelsohn provides a complete guide to the Lower East Side of then and now. After an extensive history that stretches back to Manhattan's first settlers, Mendelsohn offers 5 self-guided walking tours, including a new passage through the Bowery, that take the reader to more than 150 sites and highlight the dynamics of a community of contrasts: aged tenements nestled among luxury apartment towers abut historic churches and synagogues.
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South Street
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South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived(...)
South Street
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South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally policed world that was deeply hostile to outsiders.
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Long-time expert on the social and political movements of Hungary, András Gerö turns his keen eye to the motivations, desires, and actions behind the design and decoration of Kossuth Square, a public space that faces Hungary's Building of Parliament.
Public space in Budapest: the history of Kossuth Square
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Long-time expert on the social and political movements of Hungary, András Gerö turns his keen eye to the motivations, desires, and actions behind the design and decoration of Kossuth Square, a public space that faces Hungary's Building of Parliament.
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On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which(...)
On the Irish waterfront
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Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory.
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Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story of the city's rebuilding. Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol,(...)
From ruins to reconstruction: urban identity in Soviet Sevastopol after world war II
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Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story of the city's rebuilding. Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a unique story in which the periphery "bests" the Stalinist center: the city's experience shows that local officials had considerable room to maneuver even during the peak years of Stalinist control.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography,(...)
November 2009
The iconic house : architectural masterworks since 1900
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography, gazetteers and a list of houses by type, whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, High-Tech or vernacular.
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This publication features 100 projects which have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. It includes projects by UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid and J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote, amongt others.
Unbuilt masterworks of the 21st century : inspirational architecture for the digital age
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This publication features 100 projects which have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. It includes projects by UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid and J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote, amongt others.
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French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses(...)
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September 2009
The age of comfort: when Paris discovered casual and the modern home began
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French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses displayed a bold vision for integrating architecture, interior decor and fashion, thus influencing modern comfort. In private mansions, French architects subdivided interior space to allow for varying degrees of privacy. As bathing became a pleasurable, commonplace activity, tubs became more comfortable and were redesigned as decorative objects in their own right. Men fell in love with the superexpensive flush toilet; the sofa—created by the architect Meissonnier—attained instant celebrity status; and interior decoration became a subset of the new architecture of private life as Parisians discovered that domestic interiors should be the expression of their personal taste.
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