Charles Garnier
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Architecte immense et prolifique, Charles Garnier est resté très mal connu jusqu'à ce jour. Celui qui, par la construction de l'Opéra, a mieux qu'un autre symbolisé la civilisation brillante du Second Empire, a subi la même défaveur que le régime de Napoléon III, si bien que de rares études rendent compte des bâtiments qu'il a construits. Cet ouvrage en présente la(...)
Charles Garnier
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Architecte immense et prolifique, Charles Garnier est resté très mal connu jusqu'à ce jour. Celui qui, par la construction de l'Opéra, a mieux qu'un autre symbolisé la civilisation brillante du Second Empire, a subi la même défaveur que le régime de Napoléon III, si bien que de rares études rendent compte des bâtiments qu'il a construits. Cet ouvrage en présente la biographie et l'œuvre complet, depuis son grand prix de Rome jusqu'au casino de Monte-Carlo, aux thermes de Vittel, aux villas de Bordighera et à l'église de La Capelle-en-Thiérache. Par cette évocation, c'est tout le monde des financiers, promoteurs immobiliers, constructeurs de chemins de fer et même éditeurs qui se profile, mais aussi celui de cette pléiade d'artistes dont Garnier avait fait ses collaborateurs. Richement illustré, l'ouvrage comprend en annexe un catalogue de l'œuvre.
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Published to coincide with an exhibition at Chicago’s Newberry Library, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West charts the historic role maps have played in imagining, understanding, promoting, and exploiting the Western frontier of North America. Featuring more than sixty full-color maps and views from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, this(...)
Architectural Plans and Cartography
August 2008, Chicago
Mapping manifest destiny: Chicago and the American West
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Published to coincide with an exhibition at Chicago’s Newberry Library, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West charts the historic role maps have played in imagining, understanding, promoting, and exploiting the Western frontier of North America. Featuring more than sixty full-color maps and views from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, this fascinating book documents how maps encouraged Euro-Americans to see the West as a land of promise. Maps helped visualize a nation destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. Curators Michael P. Conzen and Diane Dillon present an interpretively rich, carefully researched selection of items drawing on the Newberry’s superb collections of historic maps and Western Americana. They have organized the book into four sections: maps for empire, maps for building a new nation, maps for enlightenment, and maps for business.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Ce sont les nouveaux grands seigneurs de notre temps. Les GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) et autres plateformes (Airbnb, Uber et Netflix) règnent sans partage sur un empire numérique qui transcende les frontières nationales, au mépris de la souveraineté des États et de leurs législations. Épidémie de fausses nouvelles, polarisation des débats, contrôle(...)
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Les barbares numériques : Résister à l'invasion des GAFAM
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Ce sont les nouveaux grands seigneurs de notre temps. Les GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) et autres plateformes (Airbnb, Uber et Netflix) règnent sans partage sur un empire numérique qui transcende les frontières nationales, au mépris de la souveraineté des États et de leurs législations. Épidémie de fausses nouvelles, polarisation des débats, contrôle des données personnelles, surconsommation énergétique et pollution atmosphérique… Ces barbares numériques représentent une véritable menace pour la démocratie. Devant la passivité de nos gouvernements, à Québec comme à Ottawa, Alain Saulnier lance un appel à la résistance. Pour l’ancien directeur de l’information de Radio-Canada, il est urgent d’établir l’équité fiscale, de protéger les droits d’auteur et de moderniser tout l’écosystème numérique. Il en va de la survie de nos médias, de notre langue et de notre culture françaises en Amérique du Nord.
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the(...)
Behind the glass: The Villa Tugendhat and its family
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. It traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat – Lambek’s maternal grandmother – who commissioned, inhabited, championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house.The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete’s son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.
Architectural Theory
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Rather than look only at the physical development of Rome - its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces - Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. Dyson follows Rome as it developed(...)
Rome: A living portrait of an ancient city
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Rather than look only at the physical development of Rome - its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces - Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. Dyson follows Rome as it developed between the third century BC and the fourth century AD, dividing the megalopolis into distinct neighborhoods and locales. He shows how these communities, each with its own unique customs and colorful inhabitants, eventually grew into the great imperial capital of the Italian Empire. Dyson integrates the full range of sources available -- literary, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological -- to create a comprehensive history of the monumental city. In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.
History until 1900, Classicism
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Depuis plus de trois siècles, se pose la question de la place de la nature dans l'aménagement des villes. Des premiers jardins ouverts au public à la fin du XVIe siècle, comme les Tuileries à Paris ou Hyde Park à Londres, aux forêts urbaines contemporaines, les réponses apportées par les architectes, ingénieurs, paysagistes et leurs commanditaires sont inséparables de(...)
Natures urbaines : Une histoire technique et sociale 1600-2030
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Depuis plus de trois siècles, se pose la question de la place de la nature dans l'aménagement des villes. Des premiers jardins ouverts au public à la fin du XVIe siècle, comme les Tuileries à Paris ou Hyde Park à Londres, aux forêts urbaines contemporaines, les réponses apportées par les architectes, ingénieurs, paysagistes et leurs commanditaires sont inséparables de préoccupations sociales. En même temps qu'elle contribue à l'hygiène publique, la nature participe à créer des liens entre les citadins. L'histoire révèle également la dimension technique de ces jardins et parcs urbains, inséparable par exemple des plantations de Paris sous le Second Empire ou de la création de Central Park à New York à la même époque. Face à la crise climatique actuelle, la nature joue un rôle central. Etudier l'évolution de la ou des natures urbaines, c'est aussi s'interroger sur le devenir des villes.
Urban Landscapes
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Les numéros 42 à 45 de la revue critique consacrée au graphisme : nº 42, 12 ou 13 choses que je sais d'elle : F.R.DAVID, Victoire Le Bars et Benjamin Thorel; nº 43, Un caractère : L'« écriture typographiée »,Thierry Chancogne; nº 44, Une énigme : la communication visuelle des neurosciences, James Langdon; nº 45, Fabrique de la redondance (4 gabarits de mise en page),(...)
Faire : Regarder le graphisme, volume 12 (n° 42-43-44-45)
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Les numéros 42 à 45 de la revue critique consacrée au graphisme : nº 42, 12 ou 13 choses que je sais d'elle : F.R.DAVID, Victoire Le Bars et Benjamin Thorel; nº 43, Un caractère : L'« écriture typographiée »,Thierry Chancogne; nº 44, Une énigme : la communication visuelle des neurosciences, James Langdon; nº 45, Fabrique de la redondance (4 gabarits de mise en page), Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey. ''Faire – Regarder le graphisme'' est une revue critique bimensuelle consacrée au design graphique, qui paraît en librairie tous les deux mois sous la forme de recueils de trois ou quatre numéros. Editée par Empire, la maison d'édition du studio Syndicat, elle parait d'octobre à juin et s'adresse aussi bien aux étudiants qu'aux chercheurs et aux professionnels, en documentant les pratiques contemporaines et internationales du graphisme ainsi que l'histoire et la grammaire des styles. Chaque numéro propose un sujet unique et tentaculaire, traité par un auteur reconnu.
Magazines
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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,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
April 2006, New Haven, London
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.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the (...)
Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World
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This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the East. Separate chapters in Part I cover the principal regions of the Roman Empire in turn, bringing out the distinctive characteristics of their mosaic workshops. Questions of technique and production, of the role of mosaics in architecture, and of their social functions and implications are treated in Part II. The book discusses both well known works and recent finds, and balances consideration of exceptional masterpieces against standard workshop production. Two main lines of approach are followed throughout: first, the role of mosaics as a significant art form, which over an unbroken span illuminates the evolution of pictorial style better than any comparable surviving medium; and secondly, their character as works of artisan production closely linked to their architectural context.
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January 1900, Cambridge
History until 1900
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In the second volume of Mark Ruwedel’s epic study of the landscapes of Los Angeles, the artist heads to the coast – the furthest edge of the basin’s sprawl before it meets the Pacific Ocean. These absorbing and layered photographs suggest extremes of many kinds: the far reaches of urbanisation, the dramatic geographies of desert and sea, the boundless ambitions of empire,(...)
Mark Ruwedel: The western edge. Los Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies 2
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In the second volume of Mark Ruwedel’s epic study of the landscapes of Los Angeles, the artist heads to the coast – the furthest edge of the basin’s sprawl before it meets the Pacific Ocean. These absorbing and layered photographs suggest extremes of many kinds: the far reaches of urbanisation, the dramatic geographies of desert and sea, the boundless ambitions of empire, and the spiralling climate conditions that most recently have seen these areas devastated by fires. Charting a hundred-mile route from Point Mugu, north of Malibu, down to the Bolsa Chica Wetlands of Orange County, Ruwedel studies a range of intricately textured landscapes, woven with the traces of decades of human intervention and the countervailing forces of nature and time. His large-format black-and-white photography recalls iconic photographer-cartographers of the nineteenth century while calling into question the taxonomic certainty and implicit politics of their surveying projects.
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