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De la Prohibition américaine sur les jeux et l'alcool dans les années 1920 à l'arrivée de Fidel Castro en 1959, Cuba accueille, bien avant Las Vegas, un glissement progressif du plaisir qui, d'antichambre du vice de Miami au tourisme familial, transforme la dictature du général Batista en un ludique et balnéaire parc à thème. Une Cythère de l'American Way of Life, une(...)
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De la Prohibition américaine sur les jeux et l'alcool dans les années 1920 à l'arrivée de Fidel Castro en 1959, Cuba accueille, bien avant Las Vegas, un glissement progressif du plaisir qui, d'antichambre du vice de Miami au tourisme familial, transforme la dictature du général Batista en un ludique et balnéaire parc à thème. Une Cythère de l'American Way of Life, une(...)
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Modernisme et vanité: happy days à Miami et la Havane
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De la Prohibition américaine sur les jeux et l'alcool dans les années 1920 à l'arrivée de Fidel Castro en 1959, Cuba accueille, bien avant Las Vegas, un glissement progressif du plaisir qui, d'antichambre du vice de Miami au tourisme familial, transforme la dictature du général Batista en un ludique et balnéaire parc à thème. Une Cythère de l'American Way of Life, une pure vacance offshore, une plateforme du loisir en voie de massification. Après ses premiers succès au Fontainebleau (1954) et à l'Eden Roc (1955), l'architecte Morris Lapidus – le kitchissime maître du « bon goût » – et quelques autres seront les principaux promoteurs de ce too much is more ! Tout n'y est alors que jour sans fin : rhum Bacardi au pied d'hôtels-chantilly ou au bord de leur piscine-haricot. À l'ombre des palmiers, rien de nouveau...
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De la Prohibition américaine sur les jeux et l'alcool dans les années 1920 à l'arrivée de Fidel Castro en 1959, Cuba accueille, bien avant Las Vegas, un glissement progressif du plaisir qui, d'antichambre du vice de Miami au tourisme familial, transforme la dictature du général Batista en un ludique et balnéaire parc à thème. Une Cythère de l'American Way of Life, une pure vacance offshore, une plateforme du loisir en voie de massification. Après ses premiers succès au Fontainebleau (1954) et à l'Eden Roc (1955), l'architecte Morris Lapidus – le kitchissime maître du « bon goût » – et quelques autres seront les principaux promoteurs de ce too much is more ! Tout n'y est alors que jour sans fin : rhum Bacardi au pied d'hôtels-chantilly ou au bord de leur piscine-haricot. À l'ombre des palmiers, rien de nouveau...
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Immeuble qui demeura «le plus grand et le plus haut du monde» pendant 40 ans, l'Empire State Building fut, en son temps, l'opération immobilière de tous les records : 16 mois de chantier pour 200.000 m2 et 380 m de haut. Un article de Fortune en 1930 le décrit comme «un prisme bizarrement taillé, délimité d’un côté par 7.800 m2 de terrain et plafonné de l’autre par un(...)
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Immeuble qui demeura «le plus grand et le plus haut du monde» pendant 40 ans, l'Empire State Building fut, en son temps, l'opération immobilière de tous les records : 16 mois de chantier pour 200.000 m2 et 380 m de haut. Un article de Fortune en 1930 le décrit comme «un prisme bizarrement taillé, délimité d’un côté par 7.800 m2 de terrain et plafonné de l’autre par un(...)
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Form follows finance : l'Empire State Building et les forces qui l'ont façonné
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Immeuble qui demeura «le plus grand et le plus haut du monde» pendant 40 ans, l'Empire State Building fut, en son temps, l'opération immobilière de tous les records : 16 mois de chantier pour 200.000 m2 et 380 m de haut. Un article de Fortune en 1930 le décrit comme «un prisme bizarrement taillé, délimité d’un côté par 7.800 m2 de terrain et plafonné de l’autre par un budget de 35 millions de dollars ; les autres facettes en [sont] : la loi de décroissance des rendements, celles des caractéristiques physiques des structures en acier, les exigences des ordonnances du zonage et une mise à disposition locative au 1er mai 1931». Malgré son statut d'exception, Carol Willis montre que le mastodonte répondait aussi à une règle architecturale bien américaine – selon laquelle la forme suit (d'abord)... son financement.
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Immeuble qui demeura «le plus grand et le plus haut du monde» pendant 40 ans, l'Empire State Building fut, en son temps, l'opération immobilière de tous les records : 16 mois de chantier pour 200.000 m2 et 380 m de haut. Un article de Fortune en 1930 le décrit comme «un prisme bizarrement taillé, délimité d’un côté par 7.800 m2 de terrain et plafonné de l’autre par un budget de 35 millions de dollars ; les autres facettes en [sont] : la loi de décroissance des rendements, celles des caractéristiques physiques des structures en acier, les exigences des ordonnances du zonage et une mise à disposition locative au 1er mai 1931». Malgré son statut d'exception, Carol Willis montre que le mastodonte répondait aussi à une règle architecturale bien américaine – selon laquelle la forme suit (d'abord)... son financement.
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Building Seagram
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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when(...)
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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when(...)
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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe, a pioneering modern master of what he termed “skin and bones” architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight-story tower along with Philip Johnson, emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building’s plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture.
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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe, a pioneering modern master of what he termed “skin and bones” architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight-story tower along with Philip Johnson, emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building’s plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture.
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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections — “Theory,” “The City,” “Streets,” and “Signs” — the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing(...)
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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections — “Theory,” “The City,” “Streets,” and “Signs” — the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing(...)
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Atlas : the archaeology of an imaginary city
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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections — “Theory,” “The City,” “Streets,” and “Signs” — the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung’s novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author’s versatility and experimentation, along with China’s rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British “handover” in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
Atlas : the archaeology of an imaginary city
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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections — “Theory,” “The City,” “Streets,” and “Signs” — the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung’s novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author’s versatility and experimentation, along with China’s rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British “handover” in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
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Des Magdaléniens d'Etiolles à la porte d'Ishtar à Babylone en passant par les portiques grecs, les arcs de triomphe romains ou les portes de l'Enfer, cet essai retrace la construction de l'imaginaire de cet objet du quotidien qu'est la porte. Sous toutes ses formes, à travers l'histoire et les sociétés, elle invite à penser le dedans et le dehors, l'ouvert et le fermé, le(...)
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Des Magdaléniens d'Etiolles à la porte d'Ishtar à Babylone en passant par les portiques grecs, les arcs de triomphe romains ou les portes de l'Enfer, cet essai retrace la construction de l'imaginaire de cet objet du quotidien qu'est la porte. Sous toutes ses formes, à travers l'histoire et les sociétés, elle invite à penser le dedans et le dehors, l'ouvert et le fermé, le(...)
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November 2012
November 2012
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Ethnologie de la porte des passages et des seuils
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Des Magdaléniens d'Etiolles à la porte d'Ishtar à Babylone en passant par les portiques grecs, les arcs de triomphe romains ou les portes de l'Enfer, cet essai retrace la construction de l'imaginaire de cet objet du quotidien qu'est la porte. Sous toutes ses formes, à travers l'histoire et les sociétés, elle invite à penser le dedans et le dehors, l'ouvert et le fermé, le bien-être et le danger.
Ethnologie de la porte des passages et des seuils
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Des Magdaléniens d'Etiolles à la porte d'Ishtar à Babylone en passant par les portiques grecs, les arcs de triomphe romains ou les portes de l'Enfer, cet essai retrace la construction de l'imaginaire de cet objet du quotidien qu'est la porte. Sous toutes ses formes, à travers l'histoire et les sociétés, elle invite à penser le dedans et le dehors, l'ouvert et le fermé, le bien-être et le danger.
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Derrida for architects
Derrida for architects
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Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language, his thinking has been applied by architectural theorists widely. As(...)
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Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language, his thinking has been applied by architectural theorists widely. As(...)
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Derrida for architects
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Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language, his thinking has been applied by architectural theorists widely. As well as a review of Derrida’s interaction with architecture, this book is also a careful consideration of the implications of his thinking, particularly on the way architecture is practiced.
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Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is language, his thinking has been applied by architectural theorists widely. As well as a review of Derrida’s interaction with architecture, this book is also a careful consideration of the implications of his thinking, particularly on the way architecture is practiced.
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For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. This publication collects Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the twentieth(...)
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For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. This publication collects Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the twentieth(...)
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On architecture: collected reflections on a century of change
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For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. This publication collects Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the twentieth century's most important architectural masters and projects, cataloging the seismic shifts in style, function, and fashion that have led to the dramatic new architecture of the twenty-first century.
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For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. This publication collects Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the twentieth century's most important architectural masters and projects, cataloging the seismic shifts in style, function, and fashion that have led to the dramatic new architecture of the twenty-first century.
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November 2010
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LAb(au): metadesign
LAb(au): metadesign
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A collective founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb[au] is a dynamic interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism, creating interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and its own software and interfaces. The name LAb[au] is a pun inspired partly by the Bauhaus, whose methodological and experimental reflection on the industrialisation of art helped to(...)
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A collective founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb[au] is a dynamic interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism, creating interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and its own software and interfaces. The name LAb[au] is a pun inspired partly by the Bauhaus, whose methodological and experimental reflection on the industrialisation of art helped to(...)
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LAb(au): metadesign
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A collective founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb[au] is a dynamic interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism, creating interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and its own software and interfaces. The name LAb[au] is a pun inspired partly by the Bauhaus, whose methodological and experimental reflection on the industrialisation of art helped to inspire the group. Their first monograph presents an important selection of the group's artworks, which they term MetaDeSIGN; an approach characterised by the establishing of systems and processes, whose new rules and geometries become the principle artistic creation.
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A collective founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb[au] is a dynamic interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism, creating interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and its own software and interfaces. The name LAb[au] is a pun inspired partly by the Bauhaus, whose methodological and experimental reflection on the industrialisation of art helped to inspire the group. Their first monograph presents an important selection of the group's artworks, which they term MetaDeSIGN; an approach characterised by the establishing of systems and processes, whose new rules and geometries become the principle artistic creation.
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In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline, Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy(...)
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In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline, Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy(...)
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Walled states, waning sovereignty
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In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline, Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy and the popular desires that incite the contemporary building of walls. The new walls—dividing Texas from Mexico, Israel from Palestine, South Africa from Zimbabwe—consecrate the broken boundaries they would seem to contest and signify the ungovernability of a range of forces unleashed by globalization. Yet these same walls often amount to little more than theatrical props, frequently breached, and blur the distinction between law and lawlessness that they are intended to represent. But if today's walls fail to resolve the conflicts between globalization and national identity, they nonetheless project a stark image of sovereign power. Walls, Brown argues, address human desires for containment and protection in a world increasingly without these provisions. Walls respond to the wish for horizons even as horizons are vanquished.
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In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline, Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy and the popular desires that incite the contemporary building of walls. The new walls—dividing Texas from Mexico, Israel from Palestine, South Africa from Zimbabwe—consecrate the broken boundaries they would seem to contest and signify the ungovernability of a range of forces unleashed by globalization. Yet these same walls often amount to little more than theatrical props, frequently breached, and blur the distinction between law and lawlessness that they are intended to represent. But if today's walls fail to resolve the conflicts between globalization and national identity, they nonetheless project a stark image of sovereign power. Walls, Brown argues, address human desires for containment and protection in a world increasingly without these provisions. Walls respond to the wish for horizons even as horizons are vanquished.
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
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Réflexions sur l'architecture
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
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