Sienne : où trouver Duccio, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Beccafumi
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Ce petit guide original accompagne le visiteur sur la terre enchantée de Sienne, le long de cinq parcours différents, à la découverte des grands artistes qui ont marqué les moments les plus suggestifs de l'histoire de la peinture siennoise, depuis les précieuses fresques raffinées et les fonds or du Gothique jusqu'aux extravagances intellectualistes du maniérisme. Chaque(...)
Sienne : où trouver Duccio, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Beccafumi
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Ce petit guide original accompagne le visiteur sur la terre enchantée de Sienne, le long de cinq parcours différents, à la découverte des grands artistes qui ont marqué les moments les plus suggestifs de l'histoire de la peinture siennoise, depuis les précieuses fresques raffinées et les fonds or du Gothique jusqu'aux extravagances intellectualistes du maniérisme. Chaque artiste est présenté dans une brève biographie, puis les couvres qu'il a réalisées à Sienne sont localisées et décrites avec de nombreux détails curieux et des observations aidant à mieux comprendre le contexte historique et culturel qui lés vit naître et le milieu auquel elles étaient destinées
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Louisville guide
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Louisville is one of the overlooked gems of American architecture, a city of Southern charm and grace with a catalogue of buildings by such masters as D.H. Burnham, Bruce Goff, and Herb Greene. An important destination for people interested in everything from colonial to postmodern architecture, this riverfront city is historically rich, while being beautifully planned(...)
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August 2004, New York
Louisville guide
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Louisville is one of the overlooked gems of American architecture, a city of Southern charm and grace with a catalogue of buildings by such masters as D.H. Burnham, Bruce Goff, and Herb Greene. An important destination for people interested in everything from colonial to postmodern architecture, this riverfront city is historically rich, while being beautifully planned with a boulevard and park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The Louisville Guide takes readers on a journey through the city, describing its most notable buildings while providing a complete overview of its architectural history. Essays by Louisville scholars Grady Clay and Edie Bingham add colour and life to the story of the city and its makers. From Carrére and Hastings's Memorial Hall to Michael Graves's Humana Building, The Louisville Guide offers visitors and residents alike never-before published scholarship of the city's rich architectural heritage. At the University of Kentucky, Gregory A. Luhan is an Assistant Professor and David Mohney is the Dean of the College of Architecture, while Dennis Domer is Helen Edwards Abell Chair in Historic Preservation.
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Parcours photographique présenté par pays avec les monuments emblématiques, sans chronologie.
The grand tour : itinéraire photographique d'un architecte
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Parcours photographique présenté par pays avec les monuments emblématiques, sans chronologie.
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From humble prefabs to the colossal Park Hill in Sheffield, the number of English buildings listed for their special architectural and historical interest is truly staggering; since 1987 alone, more than 300 have received the honor. Every one of them appears here, with 350 color photos, right from the very first post-war residence listed: Sir Albert Richardson's Bracken(...)
England : a guide to post-war listed buildings
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From humble prefabs to the colossal Park Hill in Sheffield, the number of English buildings listed for their special architectural and historical interest is truly staggering; since 1987 alone, more than 300 have received the honor. Every one of them appears here, with 350 color photos, right from the very first post-war residence listed: Sir Albert Richardson's Bracken House, built for the Financial Times in 1955-59 and originally threatened with demolition. Students, architects, tourists, and historians will all find it fascinating to learn about how the process works, its controversial extension to recent architecture, and how the choices are made. Every region in England is covered, with London divided into three areas. The buildings range from traditional works to internationally outstanding modern structures, and include Gibberd's Liverpool and Spence's Coventry Cathedral, the Smithson's Hunstanton School, and Taylor & Green's Norfolk housing.
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Art-sites San Francisco
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San Francisco, a city of spectacular topography and cosmopolitan charm, now also boasts a formidable arts scene. A burst of activity centered around the opening of the Museum of Modern Art with its signature building by Mario Botta in 1995. Expansion by other museums, including projects by internationally renowned architects Aulenti, Herzog & de Meuron, Legoretta, Maki,(...)
Art-sites San Francisco
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San Francisco, a city of spectacular topography and cosmopolitan charm, now also boasts a formidable arts scene. A burst of activity centered around the opening of the Museum of Modern Art with its signature building by Mario Botta in 1995. Expansion by other museums, including projects by internationally renowned architects Aulenti, Herzog & de Meuron, Legoretta, Maki, and Polshek has further enhanced the city's profile. In addition, exhibition programs at alternative spaces and art schools have been reinvigorated, a new generation of artists and galleries has had a reenergizing effect, and the arrival of prestigious design stores has significantly enriched the dynamics.
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"Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition", completely updated and revised, covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the(...)
Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition
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"Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition", completely updated and revised, covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the fourth edition, including the massive reconstruction of Grant Park around Frank Gehry's Music Pavilion, and they cover as well the current status of older buildings--some destroyed, others, such as Burnham's Reliance Building, restored and brought back to life. This book also includes expanded sections on the city's future and the development of its diverse neighborhoods, presented with new maps to serve as an even more effective walking guide. A glossary of architectural terms, an extensive index, and more than sixty new photographs of both old and new buildings bring this guide completely up-to-date.
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Cracovie possède des chefs-d'oeuvre de la période sécession et de l'art nouveau. Au gré de sept promenades, de Cracovie à Zakopane, vous en découvrirez les différentes facettes à travers l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture et l'art décoratif. De nombreuses photos couleurs et des cartes claires vous accompagnent dans ces circuits où alternent des visites de musées,(...)
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March 2006, Bruxelles et Cracovie
Cracovie : sur les traces de la Jeune Pologne. La sécession à Cracovie et environs
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Cracovie possède des chefs-d'oeuvre de la période sécession et de l'art nouveau. Au gré de sept promenades, de Cracovie à Zakopane, vous en découvrirez les différentes facettes à travers l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture et l'art décoratif. De nombreuses photos couleurs et des cartes claires vous accompagnent dans ces circuits où alternent des visites de musées, d'église et d'immeubles, ponctuées de haltes dans des cafés et des restaurants traditionnels et conviviaux. Bilingue français et polonais.
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Le centre-ville de Riga compte plusieurs centaines d'immeubles art nouveau. On découvre les immeubles les plus remarquables au cours de promenades détailées. Chaque promenade est accompagnée d'un plan qui signale par un numéro l'emplacement des monuments les plus intéressants. Des ensembles architecturaux se trouvent également au dehors de la ville. Bilingue en(...)
Riga : sur les traces de l'art nouveau à Riga
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Le centre-ville de Riga compte plusieurs centaines d'immeubles art nouveau. On découvre les immeubles les plus remarquables au cours de promenades détailées. Chaque promenade est accompagnée d'un plan qui signale par un numéro l'emplacement des monuments les plus intéressants. Des ensembles architecturaux se trouvent également au dehors de la ville. Bilingue en français et polonais.
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Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
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Although postmodern architecture reaches giddy heights in the cinema multiplexes and shopping malls on the outskirts of town, its services have been in greatest demand in the centre of London. The fun, brash style dominated architecture from its radical inception at the end of the 1970's to its soggy death by cul-de-sac developments in the 90's. Why did the postmodern(...)
Postmodern architecture in London
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Although postmodern architecture reaches giddy heights in the cinema multiplexes and shopping malls on the outskirts of town, its services have been in greatest demand in the centre of London. The fun, brash style dominated architecture from its radical inception at the end of the 1970's to its soggy death by cul-de-sac developments in the 90's. Why did the postmodern expire? A change of fashion, maybe? It can certainly be too much at times, all those Plaudoh pediments, Lego walls and cheap multicoloured facings. A victim of its own popularity? We live and work in countless postmodern low-rise houses and offices all over the city; so ubiquitous is it that not a street has been spared.
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