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In 2006, two artists fled the high cost of living in Vancouver and moved to a place where they knew absolutely nobody, Bruno, Saskatchewan, population 500. They set up a storefront building in which they housed their own unique brand of café / art shop / community centre / music venue called All Citizens from 2007-2011. McCarroll kept a blog called Going Rural of her(...)
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In 2006, two artists fled the high cost of living in Vancouver and moved to a place where they knew absolutely nobody, Bruno, Saskatchewan, population 500. They set up a storefront building in which they housed their own unique brand of café / art shop / community centre / music venue called All Citizens from 2007-2011. McCarroll kept a blog called Going Rural of her(...)
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In 2006, two artists fled the high cost of living in Vancouver and moved to a place where they knew absolutely nobody, Bruno, Saskatchewan, population 500. They set up a storefront building in which they housed their own unique brand of café / art shop / community centre / music venue called All Citizens from 2007-2011. McCarroll kept a blog called Going Rural of her travels and experiences moving and setting up shop. This blog (text and photographs) forms a significant chapter of the All Citizens art book and serves as an introduction to Saara Liinamaa’s essay on rural interventions. The documentation (in text, interviews, and photographs) of the artistic practice of three local senior women formed McCarroll’s MFA thesis project in the Documentary Media Program at Ryerson and constitutes another significant chapter. Cartoonist David Collier visits one of these women in Bruno and provides a comic essay in his own style. Also contributing is artist Jason McLean. But the heart of the All Citizens project was the store itself, a meeting place, shop, cultural centre, music venue and all things in between. It was the ultimate culmination of a DIY aesthetic forged onto a rural landscape. Includes Bonus CD: Daniel, Fred, and Julie: Live at All Citizens.
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In 2006, two artists fled the high cost of living in Vancouver and moved to a place where they knew absolutely nobody, Bruno, Saskatchewan, population 500. They set up a storefront building in which they housed their own unique brand of café / art shop / community centre / music venue called All Citizens from 2007-2011. McCarroll kept a blog called Going Rural of her travels and experiences moving and setting up shop. This blog (text and photographs) forms a significant chapter of the All Citizens art book and serves as an introduction to Saara Liinamaa’s essay on rural interventions. The documentation (in text, interviews, and photographs) of the artistic practice of three local senior women formed McCarroll’s MFA thesis project in the Documentary Media Program at Ryerson and constitutes another significant chapter. Cartoonist David Collier visits one of these women in Bruno and provides a comic essay in his own style. Also contributing is artist Jason McLean. But the heart of the All Citizens project was the store itself, a meeting place, shop, cultural centre, music venue and all things in between. It was the ultimate culmination of a DIY aesthetic forged onto a rural landscape. Includes Bonus CD: Daniel, Fred, and Julie: Live at All Citizens.
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November 2012
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Canadian art
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Vito Acconci's Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book introduces the artist-architect and his project. It seems as if a UFO has landed in the middle of Graz: an organic form, evoking a half shell or a snail's shell, is floating on the Mur river as an artificial island, connected by piers to both(...)
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Vito Acconci's Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book introduces the artist-architect and his project. It seems as if a UFO has landed in the middle of Graz: an organic form, evoking a half shell or a snail's shell, is floating on the Mur river as an artificial island, connected by piers to both(...)
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Contemporary Art Monographs
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October 2003, Ostfildern-Ruit
October 2003, Ostfildern-Ruit
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Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio : Building an island, Mur Island, Graz/Austria
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Vito Acconci's Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book introduces the artist-architect and his project. It seems as if a UFO has landed in the middle of Graz: an organic form, evoking a half shell or a snail's shell, is floating on the Mur river as an artificial island, connected by piers to both river banks. The steel construction was designed by the American-born architect-artist Vito Acconci, based on the idea of Robert Punkenhofer, a native of Graz, and realized within the scope of Graz 2003: Kulturhauptstadt Europas. Acconci Island, consisting of various interlocking surfaces with flowing transitions, houses an amphitheatre, a café and a playground. Large parts of its outer stainless-steel skin reflect the city; acrylic fibre, glass, steel grids and peepholes provide a view onto the water and the banks, while the transparent materials make the building look weightless. The result is a breathtaking, technically sophisticated avant-garde piece of architecture that refuses categorization. The book documents the different stages of the design, and places sketches and computer simulations next to remarkable photographs of models as well as shots of the finished island. An interview with Vito Acconci and a presentation of the diverse work by the Acconci Studio round off the book.
Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio : Building an island, Mur Island, Graz/Austria
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Vito Acconci's Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book introduces the artist-architect and his project. It seems as if a UFO has landed in the middle of Graz: an organic form, evoking a half shell or a snail's shell, is floating on the Mur river as an artificial island, connected by piers to both river banks. The steel construction was designed by the American-born architect-artist Vito Acconci, based on the idea of Robert Punkenhofer, a native of Graz, and realized within the scope of Graz 2003: Kulturhauptstadt Europas. Acconci Island, consisting of various interlocking surfaces with flowing transitions, houses an amphitheatre, a café and a playground. Large parts of its outer stainless-steel skin reflect the city; acrylic fibre, glass, steel grids and peepholes provide a view onto the water and the banks, while the transparent materials make the building look weightless. The result is a breathtaking, technically sophisticated avant-garde piece of architecture that refuses categorization. The book documents the different stages of the design, and places sketches and computer simulations next to remarkable photographs of models as well as shots of the finished island. An interview with Vito Acconci and a presentation of the diverse work by the Acconci Studio round off the book.
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October 2003, Ostfildern-Ruit
October 2003, Ostfildern-Ruit
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti(...)
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti(...)
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Devotion
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing. "The why I write" series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing. "The why I write" series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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September 2017
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71 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm.
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Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2016], ©2016
Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2016], ©2016
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Ivano Gianola : LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura / text, Frank R. Werner ; photographs, Christian Richters ; translation into English, Friedrich Ragette ; editor, Axel Menges.
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Ivano Gianola : LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura / text, Frank R. Werner ; photographs, Christian Richters ; translation into English, Friedrich Ragette ; editor, Axel Menges.
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When architect Rafael Vinoly was commissioned to design a major new centre for the arts at Duke University, he set about creating his first museum in North America and the first stand-alone museum in Duke's eighty-year history. The resulting 65,000-square-foot building has changed the cultural landscape of the university and indeed the Southeast. This book(...)
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When architect Rafael Vinoly was commissioned to design a major new centre for the arts at Duke University, he set about creating his first museum in North America and the first stand-alone museum in Duke's eighty-year history. The resulting 65,000-square-foot building has changed the cultural landscape of the university and indeed the Southeast. This book(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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October 2005, Durham, North Carolina
October 2005, Durham, North Carolina
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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University : Rafael Vinoly Architects
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When architect Rafael Vinoly was commissioned to design a major new centre for the arts at Duke University, he set about creating his first museum in North America and the first stand-alone museum in Duke's eighty-year history. The resulting 65,000-square-foot building has changed the cultural landscape of the university and indeed the Southeast. This book documents the genesis and design of the new museum, which opens on October 2, 2005. The building is named in honor of the family of Raymond D. Nasher, an internationally prominent art collector who graduated from Duke in 1943. The brilliant core of the Nasher at Duke is a 13,000-square-foot glass and steel canopy rising to a height of 45 feet above the central gallery space. The faceted roof soars above the irregular pentagonal great hall, where five concrete pavilions fan out at different angles. The pavilions will house three large gallery spaces, an auditorium, offices, university and community classrooms, a museum shop, and a café with outdoor seating overlooking a sculpture garden. Set in the forest on Duke's campus, the museum's full-height glass walls and green slate floor connect the pavilions and further blur the division between building and nature. With an essay by art historian Annabel Jane Wharton, a design statement by architect Rafael Vinoly, a foreword by museum namesake Raymond D. Nasher, and photographs by Brad Feinknopf and Jerry Blow, this book documents the building that will become a cornerstone for cultural activities for the university and the public.
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University : Rafael Vinoly Architects
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When architect Rafael Vinoly was commissioned to design a major new centre for the arts at Duke University, he set about creating his first museum in North America and the first stand-alone museum in Duke's eighty-year history. The resulting 65,000-square-foot building has changed the cultural landscape of the university and indeed the Southeast. This book documents the genesis and design of the new museum, which opens on October 2, 2005. The building is named in honor of the family of Raymond D. Nasher, an internationally prominent art collector who graduated from Duke in 1943. The brilliant core of the Nasher at Duke is a 13,000-square-foot glass and steel canopy rising to a height of 45 feet above the central gallery space. The faceted roof soars above the irregular pentagonal great hall, where five concrete pavilions fan out at different angles. The pavilions will house three large gallery spaces, an auditorium, offices, university and community classrooms, a museum shop, and a café with outdoor seating overlooking a sculpture garden. Set in the forest on Duke's campus, the museum's full-height glass walls and green slate floor connect the pavilions and further blur the division between building and nature. With an essay by art historian Annabel Jane Wharton, a design statement by architect Rafael Vinoly, a foreword by museum namesake Raymond D. Nasher, and photographs by Brad Feinknopf and Jerry Blow, this book documents the building that will become a cornerstone for cultural activities for the university and the public.
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October 2005, Durham, North Carolina
October 2005, Durham, North Carolina
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 34 cm
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Copenhagen : Realdania, 2018.
Copenhagen : Realdania, 2018.
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BLOX / edited by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss ; photographs by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 34 cm
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Copenhagen : Realdania, 2018.
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xxx, 338 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
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The painting of modern life : Paris in the art of Manet and his followers / T.J. Clark.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
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In the City, explores the visual details of a variety of urban metropolises including Shanghai, New York, Antwerp, London, Paris, Oslo, Lausanne, Budapest, Istanbul, and San Francisco. These drawings and paintings document the sights, sounds, shapes, and textures he absorbs as the author wanders the streets without a map or sits in a cafe while waiting for a train...
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In the City, explores the visual details of a variety of urban metropolises including Shanghai, New York, Antwerp, London, Paris, Oslo, Lausanne, Budapest, Istanbul, and San Francisco. These drawings and paintings document the sights, sounds, shapes, and textures he absorbs as the author wanders the streets without a map or sits in a cafe while waiting for a train...
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In the city : drawings by Nigel Peake
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In the City, explores the visual details of a variety of urban metropolises including Shanghai, New York, Antwerp, London, Paris, Oslo, Lausanne, Budapest, Istanbul, and San Francisco. These drawings and paintings document the sights, sounds, shapes, and textures he absorbs as the author wanders the streets without a map or sits in a cafe while waiting for a train...
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October 2013
October 2013
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The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with(...)
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The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
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March 2006, Chichester
March 2006, Chichester
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Pub scene
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The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with a prospective lover. It is a comfortable destination for seeking out the company of others. Whether located on a street corner in the Scottish Highlands, Munich or New Zealand, a favourite pub is defined by its own distinct atmosphere and character. Pubs are distinguished as much by their interior décor, as by the beer and liquor they sell and the customers that mingle around the bar. These qualities combine to give a 'local' its particular appeal, with a draw far beyond its immediate locality. These very unique, idiosyncratic attributes of pubs, which were once taken for granted, are now in real danger of extinction, as bar chains with standardised designs and drinks' menus are rolled out across city centres and main streets. Turning its back on the trend towards homogeneity of today's watering holes, "Pub Scene" celebrates the often exuberant, sometimes elegant décor, and always singular, wow factor of public drinking places, whether they are big or small, traditional or contemporary. Author Jane Peyton describes some of the world's best looking pubs, including British Victorian Gin Palaces, classic Art Nouveau Belgian café bars, Germany's Beloved bierkellers, Australia's amazing beachside beer-gardens and America's notable brew-pubs.
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The pub scene across the world is characterised by its casual warmth and conviviality. It has none of the pretences or formality of a restaurant or cocktail bar. It is the relaxed setting in which friends and strangers alike can choose to meet. The pub is where we go to celebrate a special occasion with a group of chums, but also where we might go to flirt intimately with a prospective lover. It is a comfortable destination for seeking out the company of others. Whether located on a street corner in the Scottish Highlands, Munich or New Zealand, a favourite pub is defined by its own distinct atmosphere and character. Pubs are distinguished as much by their interior décor, as by the beer and liquor they sell and the customers that mingle around the bar. These qualities combine to give a 'local' its particular appeal, with a draw far beyond its immediate locality. These very unique, idiosyncratic attributes of pubs, which were once taken for granted, are now in real danger of extinction, as bar chains with standardised designs and drinks' menus are rolled out across city centres and main streets. Turning its back on the trend towards homogeneity of today's watering holes, "Pub Scene" celebrates the often exuberant, sometimes elegant décor, and always singular, wow factor of public drinking places, whether they are big or small, traditional or contemporary. Author Jane Peyton describes some of the world's best looking pubs, including British Victorian Gin Palaces, classic Art Nouveau Belgian café bars, Germany's Beloved bierkellers, Australia's amazing beachside beer-gardens and America's notable brew-pubs.
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March 2006, Chichester
March 2006, Chichester
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels(...)
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels(...)
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels particuliers - le pavillon de Louveciennes, le château de Bénouville, celui de Maupertuis et réalisa la décoration du Café militaire. Puis, architecte du roi, il construisit sous Louis XVI la saline d'Arc-et-Senans commandée par Louis XV avant sa mort et les barrières de Paris ; en province, avec la construction du théâtre de Besançon, il fit progresser la réforme des lieux de spectacle. Tombé en disgrâce à la Révolution, il fut incarcéré à la Force en 1793. Empêché d'exercer, il commence la rédaction de "L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de La législation". Ce texte, superbement illustré de projets grandioses qui rendent compte de la surprenante modernité de sa vision, offre à la postérité toute l'étendue de la puissance créatrice de Ledoux et une solide réflexion sur l'implication sociale et politique de l'architecture. Lors des réformes urbanistiques de Paris au XIXe siècle, ses constructions furent pour les trois quarts détruites. En s'appuyant sur ce qu'il reste encore actuellement de ses édifices, sur les estampes de ses projets et réalisations ainsi que sur ses écrits, qui témoignent de ses aspirations, cet ouvrage propose de retracer le parcours de Ledoux à travers une étude approfondie de son œuvre. Cette étude s'accompagne de celle, indissociable, du contexte historique particulièrement mouvementé dans lequel Ledoux vécut et s'articule autour d'une analyse sensible de la question du progrès des arts.
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels particuliers - le pavillon de Louveciennes, le château de Bénouville, celui de Maupertuis et réalisa la décoration du Café militaire. Puis, architecte du roi, il construisit sous Louis XVI la saline d'Arc-et-Senans commandée par Louis XV avant sa mort et les barrières de Paris ; en province, avec la construction du théâtre de Besançon, il fit progresser la réforme des lieux de spectacle. Tombé en disgrâce à la Révolution, il fut incarcéré à la Force en 1793. Empêché d'exercer, il commence la rédaction de "L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de La législation". Ce texte, superbement illustré de projets grandioses qui rendent compte de la surprenante modernité de sa vision, offre à la postérité toute l'étendue de la puissance créatrice de Ledoux et une solide réflexion sur l'implication sociale et politique de l'architecture. Lors des réformes urbanistiques de Paris au XIXe siècle, ses constructions furent pour les trois quarts détruites. En s'appuyant sur ce qu'il reste encore actuellement de ses édifices, sur les estampes de ses projets et réalisations ainsi que sur ses écrits, qui témoignent de ses aspirations, cet ouvrage propose de retracer le parcours de Ledoux à travers une étude approfondie de son œuvre. Cette étude s'accompagne de celle, indissociable, du contexte historique particulièrement mouvementé dans lequel Ledoux vécut et s'articule autour d'une analyse sensible de la question du progrès des arts.
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November 2005, Paris
November 2005, Paris
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Architecture Monographs
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