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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New(...)
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New(...)
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Streetlife: The untold story of Europe's twentieth century
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.
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The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to(...)
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to(...)
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Naked city: The death and life of authentic places
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood “characters” that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.
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Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city’s community gardens. Like Jane Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood “characters” that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural(...)
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural(...)
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Dubai, the city as corporation
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural and political forces in shaping both the image and the reality of Dubai. Exposing local struggles over power and meaning in the making and representation of Dubai, Kanna examines the core questions of what gets built and for whom. This publication offers an instructive picture of how different factions—from local and non-Arab residents and expatriate South Asians to the cultural and economic elites of the city—have all participated in the creation and marketing of Dubai. The result is an unparalleled account of the ways in which the built environment shapes and is shaped by the experience of globalization and neoliberalism in a diverse, multinational city.
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Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert—precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai’s rulers and merchant elite. "In Dubai, the City as Corporation", Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural and political forces in shaping both the image and the reality of Dubai. Exposing local struggles over power and meaning in the making and representation of Dubai, Kanna examines the core questions of what gets built and for whom. This publication offers an instructive picture of how different factions—from local and non-Arab residents and expatriate South Asians to the cultural and economic elites of the city—have all participated in the creation and marketing of Dubai. The result is an unparalleled account of the ways in which the built environment shapes and is shaped by the experience of globalization and neoliberalism in a diverse, multinational city.
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July 2011
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Architecture of thought
Architecture of thought
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In Architecture of Thought, Andrzej Piotrowski maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski(...)
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In Architecture of Thought, Andrzej Piotrowski maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski(...)
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Architecture of thought
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In Architecture of Thought, Andrzej Piotrowski maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski traces ancient to modern architectural histories and—through critical readings of select buildings—examines the role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated Western identity. Operating from the assertion that buildings are the most permanent record of unself-conscious beliefs and attitudes, it discusses Byzantium and the West after iconoclasm, the conquest and colonization of Mesoamerica, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe, the rise of the culture of consumerism in Victorian England, and High Modernism as its consequence.
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In Architecture of Thought, Andrzej Piotrowski maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski traces ancient to modern architectural histories and—through critical readings of select buildings—examines the role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated Western identity. Operating from the assertion that buildings are the most permanent record of unself-conscious beliefs and attitudes, it discusses Byzantium and the West after iconoclasm, the conquest and colonization of Mesoamerica, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe, the rise of the culture of consumerism in Victorian England, and High Modernism as its consequence.
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects(...)
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects(...)
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Mediterranean crossroads: Marseille and Modern architecture
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity. Drawing together architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy, Mediterranean Crossroads examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban landscape. Tracing successive planning proposals in tandem with shifting representations of the city in photographs, film, guidebooks, and postcards, Sheila Crane reconstructs the history and politics of architecture in Marseille from the 1920s through the years of rebuilding after World War II.
Mediterranean crossroads: Marseille and Modern architecture
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity. Drawing together architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy, Mediterranean Crossroads examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban landscape. Tracing successive planning proposals in tandem with shifting representations of the city in photographs, film, guidebooks, and postcards, Sheila Crane reconstructs the history and politics of architecture in Marseille from the 1920s through the years of rebuilding after World War II.
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Relational aesthetics
Relational aesthetics
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Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an(...)
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Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an(...)
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Relational aesthetics
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Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
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Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
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Kissing architecture
Kissing architecture
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Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being(...)
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Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being(...)
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Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being designed and built into architectural surfaces and interior spaces today.
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Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being designed and built into architectural surfaces and interior spaces today.
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D’où vient le sens de la ville? Pourquoi et en quoi les villes diffèrent-elles les unes des autres? Comment naissent les significations urbaines? Et qu’est-ce que la ville, par delà la mince surface de notre temps présent? Pourquoi la ville s’oppose-t-elle à la nature? Comment la ville des architectes, la ville des poètes, la ville de la publicité, la ville des(...)
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D’où vient le sens de la ville? Pourquoi et en quoi les villes diffèrent-elles les unes des autres? Comment naissent les significations urbaines? Et qu’est-ce que la ville, par delà la mince surface de notre temps présent? Pourquoi la ville s’oppose-t-elle à la nature? Comment la ville des architectes, la ville des poètes, la ville de la publicité, la ville des(...)
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La ville phénomène de représentation
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D’où vient le sens de la ville? Pourquoi et en quoi les villes diffèrent-elles les unes des autres? Comment naissent les significations urbaines? Et qu’est-ce que la ville, par delà la mince surface de notre temps présent? Pourquoi la ville s’oppose-t-elle à la nature? Comment la ville des architectes, la ville des poètes, la ville de la publicité, la ville des aménagistes, la ville des chroniqueurs se comparent-elles? Quels sont les liens qui unissent la ville d’aujourd’hui à celle d’autrefois? Cet ouvrage propose quelques perspectives à propos de ces questions. Sous les horizons variés des sciences humaines et des lettres, on y aborde la ville comme un phénomène de représentation, c’est-à-dire comme un artefact culturel logé quelque part entre notre propre conscience et les idéaux de ceux qui l’ont imaginée, de ceux qui l’habitent et de ceux qui l’explorent. Les divers textes réunis dans ces pages s’attardent donc à exposer des approches et des contextes spéculatifs afin de recadrer les questionnements sur la genèse des espaces urbains et sur les relations, d’une part entre les villes et l’identité collective. Pour penser, comprendre et expliquer la ville sous ces dimensions, l’on aborde d’abord quelques considérations épistémologiques, pour interpeller ensuite la ville engendrée par le projet architectural et urbain. Suit l’examen, entre mythe et réalité, de la ville comme idéal variable, voire antinomique dès que l’on considère l’opposition historique entre milieux naturels et urbanisés. L’ouvrage se clôt enfin sur l’invention de la ville comme processus d’investissement de sens des paysages construits.
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D’où vient le sens de la ville? Pourquoi et en quoi les villes diffèrent-elles les unes des autres? Comment naissent les significations urbaines? Et qu’est-ce que la ville, par delà la mince surface de notre temps présent? Pourquoi la ville s’oppose-t-elle à la nature? Comment la ville des architectes, la ville des poètes, la ville de la publicité, la ville des aménagistes, la ville des chroniqueurs se comparent-elles? Quels sont les liens qui unissent la ville d’aujourd’hui à celle d’autrefois? Cet ouvrage propose quelques perspectives à propos de ces questions. Sous les horizons variés des sciences humaines et des lettres, on y aborde la ville comme un phénomène de représentation, c’est-à-dire comme un artefact culturel logé quelque part entre notre propre conscience et les idéaux de ceux qui l’ont imaginée, de ceux qui l’habitent et de ceux qui l’explorent. Les divers textes réunis dans ces pages s’attardent donc à exposer des approches et des contextes spéculatifs afin de recadrer les questionnements sur la genèse des espaces urbains et sur les relations, d’une part entre les villes et l’identité collective. Pour penser, comprendre et expliquer la ville sous ces dimensions, l’on aborde d’abord quelques considérations épistémologiques, pour interpeller ensuite la ville engendrée par le projet architectural et urbain. Suit l’examen, entre mythe et réalité, de la ville comme idéal variable, voire antinomique dès que l’on considère l’opposition historique entre milieux naturels et urbanisés. L’ouvrage se clôt enfin sur l’invention de la ville comme processus d’investissement de sens des paysages construits.
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In his previous project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe proposed Venice, Italy, as a prototype of the increasingly globalized city. Here, the German philosopher reexamines the city from another perspective. Done. Book is an "inquiry into the depth of visual archives," and how the archives of a city can aid an understanding of its society. Under this rubric, Scheppe compares(...)
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In his previous project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe proposed Venice, Italy, as a prototype of the increasingly globalized city. Here, the German philosopher reexamines the city from another perspective. Done. Book is an "inquiry into the depth of visual archives," and how the archives of a city can aid an understanding of its society. Under this rubric, Scheppe compares(...)
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Done. Book, picturing the city of society
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In his previous project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe proposed Venice, Italy, as a prototype of the increasingly globalized city. Here, the German philosopher reexamines the city from another perspective. Done. Book is an "inquiry into the depth of visual archives," and how the archives of a city can aid an understanding of its society. Under this rubric, Scheppe compares two obsessive attempts at archiving or summating Venice: the Venetian notebooks of English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), compiled for his classic study Stones of Venice, and previously unseen photographs assembled by Alvio Gavagnin (born 1944), a contemporary resident of the city's working-class district. Despite their differences, both projects stem from a similar self-imposed commitment on the part of their makers: to provide a comprehensive representation of the details of an urban network, whose truth can be glimpsed in the minutiae and hidden particulars.
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In his previous project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe proposed Venice, Italy, as a prototype of the increasingly globalized city. Here, the German philosopher reexamines the city from another perspective. Done. Book is an "inquiry into the depth of visual archives," and how the archives of a city can aid an understanding of its society. Under this rubric, Scheppe compares two obsessive attempts at archiving or summating Venice: the Venetian notebooks of English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), compiled for his classic study Stones of Venice, and previously unseen photographs assembled by Alvio Gavagnin (born 1944), a contemporary resident of the city's working-class district. Despite their differences, both projects stem from a similar self-imposed commitment on the part of their makers: to provide a comprehensive representation of the details of an urban network, whose truth can be glimpsed in the minutiae and hidden particulars.
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Les Entretiens sur l'architecture ont été publiés en 1863. Viollet-le-Duc y concentre, plus que dans le Dictionnaire, l'essentiel de son expérience et de sa pensée. L'architecture n'est pas la seule affaire des architectes, c'est l'affaire de tous : elle naît et se développe dans et avec les sociétés où elle s'incarne. Elle exprime et elle reflète, plus qu'elle n'est le(...)
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Les Entretiens sur l'architecture ont été publiés en 1863. Viollet-le-Duc y concentre, plus que dans le Dictionnaire, l'essentiel de son expérience et de sa pensée. L'architecture n'est pas la seule affaire des architectes, c'est l'affaire de tous : elle naît et se développe dans et avec les sociétés où elle s'incarne. Elle exprime et elle reflète, plus qu'elle n'est le(...)
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Entretiens sur l'architecture
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Les Entretiens sur l'architecture ont été publiés en 1863. Viollet-le-Duc y concentre, plus que dans le Dictionnaire, l'essentiel de son expérience et de sa pensée. L'architecture n'est pas la seule affaire des architectes, c'est l'affaire de tous : elle naît et se développe dans et avec les sociétés où elle s'incarne. Elle exprime et elle reflète, plus qu'elle n'est le produit d'une science et de techniques. Elle est un métier et un art, une discipline et un style. C'est précisément ce que Viollet-le-Duc rend sensible de manière concrète et vivante, dans un livre qui reste un modèle et un outil de référence.
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Les Entretiens sur l'architecture ont été publiés en 1863. Viollet-le-Duc y concentre, plus que dans le Dictionnaire, l'essentiel de son expérience et de sa pensée. L'architecture n'est pas la seule affaire des architectes, c'est l'affaire de tous : elle naît et se développe dans et avec les sociétés où elle s'incarne. Elle exprime et elle reflète, plus qu'elle n'est le produit d'une science et de techniques. Elle est un métier et un art, une discipline et un style. C'est précisément ce que Viollet-le-Duc rend sensible de manière concrète et vivante, dans un livre qui reste un modèle et un outil de référence.
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