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Le style moghol est la création délibérée d'une lignée de souverains qui, dans l'Inde du XVIe au XIXe siècle, encouragèrent, employèrent et financèrent des générations d'architectes, de calligraphes, de peintres, de tisserands et d'artisans du métal. Puisant au cœur des arts du monde islamique plus vaste, notamment la Perse et l'Asie Centrale, mais solidement enraciné(...)
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Le style moghol est la création délibérée d'une lignée de souverains qui, dans l'Inde du XVIe au XIXe siècle, encouragèrent, employèrent et financèrent des générations d'architectes, de calligraphes, de peintres, de tisserands et d'artisans du métal. Puisant au cœur des arts du monde islamique plus vaste, notamment la Perse et l'Asie Centrale, mais solidement enraciné(...)
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Spendeurs Mogholes : art et architecture dans l'Inde islamique
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Le style moghol est la création délibérée d'une lignée de souverains qui, dans l'Inde du XVIe au XIXe siècle, encouragèrent, employèrent et financèrent des générations d'architectes, de calligraphes, de peintres, de tisserands et d'artisans du métal. Puisant au cœur des arts du monde islamique plus vaste, notamment la Perse et l'Asie Centrale, mais solidement enraciné dans les traditions indiennes, ce style imprégna le moindre aspect de la vie des empereurs moghols, de Babur à Aurangzeb, de leur aristocratie et des membres de leur famille. Il influença leurs manières et l'étiquette de la cour, les plats et les coupes à vin qu'ils utilisaient, leurs riches vêtements et leurs somptueux bijoux, les opulents intérieurs de leurs palais ornées de magnifiques tapis et de brocarts, et les majestueux monuments - tel le Taj Mahal ou les Forts rouges d'Agra et de Delhi - qui proclamaient leur richesse et leur puissance.
Spendeurs Mogholes : art et architecture dans l'Inde islamique
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Le style moghol est la création délibérée d'une lignée de souverains qui, dans l'Inde du XVIe au XIXe siècle, encouragèrent, employèrent et financèrent des générations d'architectes, de calligraphes, de peintres, de tisserands et d'artisans du métal. Puisant au cœur des arts du monde islamique plus vaste, notamment la Perse et l'Asie Centrale, mais solidement enraciné dans les traditions indiennes, ce style imprégna le moindre aspect de la vie des empereurs moghols, de Babur à Aurangzeb, de leur aristocratie et des membres de leur famille. Il influença leurs manières et l'étiquette de la cour, les plats et les coupes à vin qu'ils utilisaient, leurs riches vêtements et leurs somptueux bijoux, les opulents intérieurs de leurs palais ornées de magnifiques tapis et de brocarts, et les majestueux monuments - tel le Taj Mahal ou les Forts rouges d'Agra et de Delhi - qui proclamaient leur richesse et leur puissance.
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January 2008, Paris
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Following the success of "Archidoodle", this new title focuses on the city. Filled with an array of beautiful and fun drawings, it poses 75 architectural challenges for the user: from building an underground community or designing your own imaginary city to creating a new park for New York, plus many more. Aimed at at anyone who loves drawing buildings and cities, it(...)
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Following the success of "Archidoodle", this new title focuses on the city. Filled with an array of beautiful and fun drawings, it poses 75 architectural challenges for the user: from building an underground community or designing your own imaginary city to creating a new park for New York, plus many more. Aimed at at anyone who loves drawing buildings and cities, it(...)
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Archidoodle city: an architect's activity book
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Following the success of "Archidoodle", this new title focuses on the city. Filled with an array of beautiful and fun drawings, it poses 75 architectural challenges for the user: from building an underground community or designing your own imaginary city to creating a new park for New York, plus many more. Aimed at at anyone who loves drawing buildings and cities, it encourages the users to imagine their own creative solutions by sketching, drawing, and painting in the pages of the book. In so doing, they will learn about a whole range of significant issues, such as the importance of transport, lighting and green spaces, the history of urban design and planning, and the use of monuments and symbols. The book also includes numerous examples of works and ideas by major architects to draw inspiration from and will appeal to everyone from children to students and professional architects.
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Following the success of "Archidoodle", this new title focuses on the city. Filled with an array of beautiful and fun drawings, it poses 75 architectural challenges for the user: from building an underground community or designing your own imaginary city to creating a new park for New York, plus many more. Aimed at at anyone who loves drawing buildings and cities, it encourages the users to imagine their own creative solutions by sketching, drawing, and painting in the pages of the book. In so doing, they will learn about a whole range of significant issues, such as the importance of transport, lighting and green spaces, the history of urban design and planning, and the use of monuments and symbols. The book also includes numerous examples of works and ideas by major architects to draw inspiration from and will appeal to everyone from children to students and professional architects.
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February 2017
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"Water projects" presents the complete series of large-scale projects implemented or devised by Christo and Jean-Claude from 1961 to 2016. In addition to the renowned wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967–1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971–1995), the works featured include installations made of barrels and fabrics such as Wall of Oil Barrels: The Iron(...)
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"Water projects" presents the complete series of large-scale projects implemented or devised by Christo and Jean-Claude from 1961 to 2016. In addition to the renowned wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967–1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971–1995), the works featured include installations made of barrels and fabrics such as Wall of Oil Barrels: The Iron(...)
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: water projects
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"Water projects" presents the complete series of large-scale projects implemented or devised by Christo and Jean-Claude from 1961 to 2016. In addition to the renowned wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967–1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971–1995), the works featured include installations made of barrels and fabrics such as Wall of Oil Barrels: The Iron Curtain (Paris, 1961–1962) and Valley Curtain (Rifle, Colorado, 1970–1972); huge inflatable objects like 42,390 Cubic Feet Package (Minneapolis, 1966) and 5,600 Cubic Meter Package; the project for Documenta IV (Kassel, 1967–1968); and paths (Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City, 1977–1978) and portals (The Gates, New York, 1979–2005). Also included are preparatory drawings for Christo’s latest work, Floating Piers (2014–2016), a walkway stretching nearly two miles that connects two small islands in Lake Iseo, in Italy’s Lombardy region, to each other and to the mainland.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: water projects
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"Water projects" presents the complete series of large-scale projects implemented or devised by Christo and Jean-Claude from 1961 to 2016. In addition to the renowned wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967–1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971–1995), the works featured include installations made of barrels and fabrics such as Wall of Oil Barrels: The Iron Curtain (Paris, 1961–1962) and Valley Curtain (Rifle, Colorado, 1970–1972); huge inflatable objects like 42,390 Cubic Feet Package (Minneapolis, 1966) and 5,600 Cubic Meter Package; the project for Documenta IV (Kassel, 1967–1968); and paths (Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City, 1977–1978) and portals (The Gates, New York, 1979–2005). Also included are preparatory drawings for Christo’s latest work, Floating Piers (2014–2016), a walkway stretching nearly two miles that connects two small islands in Lake Iseo, in Italy’s Lombardy region, to each other and to the mainland.
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September 2017
September 2017
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Contemporary Art Monographs
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Why preservation matters
Why preservation matters
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more(...)
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more(...)
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Why preservation matters
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more progressive future. Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more progressive future. Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.
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October 2016
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Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these masters of Baroque art to craft works celebrating the glories of the heavens manifested on earth. And so, with glittering(...)
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Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these masters of Baroque art to craft works celebrating the glories of the heavens manifested on earth. And so, with glittering(...)
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Rome, 1630: The horizon of early Baroque, and other essays
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Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these masters of Baroque art to craft works celebrating the glories of the heavens manifested on earth. And so, with glittering monuments like Bernini's imposing bronze columns in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, 1630 came to be the crossroads of seventeenth-century art, religion, and power. In ''Rome, 1630,'' the renowned French poet and critic Yves Bonnefoy devotes his attention to this single year in the Baroque period in European art. The inclusion of five additional essays on seventeenth-century art situate Bonnefoy's analysis within a lively debate on Baroque art and art history. Translator Hoyt Rogers's afterword pays homage to the author himself, situating ''Rome, 1630'' in Bonnefoy's productive career as a premier French poet and critic.
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Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these masters of Baroque art to craft works celebrating the glories of the heavens manifested on earth. And so, with glittering monuments like Bernini's imposing bronze columns in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, 1630 came to be the crossroads of seventeenth-century art, religion, and power. In ''Rome, 1630,'' the renowned French poet and critic Yves Bonnefoy devotes his attention to this single year in the Baroque period in European art. The inclusion of five additional essays on seventeenth-century art situate Bonnefoy's analysis within a lively debate on Baroque art and art history. Translator Hoyt Rogers's afterword pays homage to the author himself, situating ''Rome, 1630'' in Bonnefoy's productive career as a premier French poet and critic.
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November 2020
November 2020
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Art Theory
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In many different parts of the world people cordon off sites of great suffering or great heroism from routine use and employ these sites exclusively for purposes of remembrance. The author of this book turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin in order to understand how some places are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, whereas others become the sites of public(...)
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In many different parts of the world people cordon off sites of great suffering or great heroism from routine use and employ these sites exclusively for purposes of remembrance. The author of this book turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin in order to understand how some places are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, whereas others become the sites of public(...)
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Structures of memory : understanding urban change in Berlin and beyond
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In many different parts of the world people cordon off sites of great suffering or great heroism from routine use and employ these sites exclusively for purposes of remembrance. The author of this book turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin in order to understand how some places are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, whereas others become the sites of public ceremonies, museums, or commemorative monuments. The places examined mark the city’s Nazi past and are often rendered off limits to use for apartments, shops, or offices. However, only a portion of all “authentic” sites - places with direct connections to acts of resistance or persecution during the Nazi era - actually become designated as places of official collective memory. Others are simply reabsorbed into the quotidian landscape. Remembering leaves its marks on the skin of the city, and the goal of this book is to analyze and understand precisely how.
Structures of memory : understanding urban change in Berlin and beyond
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In many different parts of the world people cordon off sites of great suffering or great heroism from routine use and employ these sites exclusively for purposes of remembrance. The author of this book turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin in order to understand how some places are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, whereas others become the sites of public ceremonies, museums, or commemorative monuments. The places examined mark the city’s Nazi past and are often rendered off limits to use for apartments, shops, or offices. However, only a portion of all “authentic” sites - places with direct connections to acts of resistance or persecution during the Nazi era - actually become designated as places of official collective memory. Others are simply reabsorbed into the quotidian landscape. Remembering leaves its marks on the skin of the city, and the goal of this book is to analyze and understand precisely how.
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April 2006, Stanford
April 2006, Stanford
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Urban Theory
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The(...)
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The(...)
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June 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
June 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
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City of collision : Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man’s-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence.
City of collision : Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man’s-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence.
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June 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
June 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the(...)
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the(...)
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Aleppo : rehabilitation of the Old City
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the City of Aleppo, in collaboration with GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) and the efforts of many individual citizens. This recent experience in central Aleppo shows us how urban rehabilitation in a historic setting can transmit a vital new meaning when the main focus of the project is restoring urban fabric rather than rebuilding monuments; key to improving current conditions is understanding that the city's physical layout synthesizes its evolution. Furthermore, the effort demonstrates that the city's inhabitants can be the protagonists of such improvements."
Aleppo : rehabilitation of the Old City
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From the Introduction: "The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded every other year since 1986. Its objective is to recognize the remarkable value of urban design projects around the globe. This time, the prize goes to the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of its historic town. The project has been carried out by the Old City Department of the City of Aleppo, in collaboration with GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) and the efforts of many individual citizens. This recent experience in central Aleppo shows us how urban rehabilitation in a historic setting can transmit a vital new meaning when the main focus of the project is restoring urban fabric rather than rebuilding monuments; key to improving current conditions is understanding that the city's physical layout synthesizes its evolution. Furthermore, the effort demonstrates that the city's inhabitants can be the protagonists of such improvements."
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September 2006, Cambridge (MA)
September 2006, Cambridge (MA)
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Between the years 1950 and 1972, when Paris was in the twilight of its classical period, pilot and photographer Roger Henrard preserved the city he knew and loved from the seat of a single-engine American army surplus Piper Cub. Henrard used a high-speed plate camera to systematically document the city from its outskirts to its centre. His photographs show not only(...)
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Between the years 1950 and 1972, when Paris was in the twilight of its classical period, pilot and photographer Roger Henrard preserved the city he knew and loved from the seat of a single-engine American army surplus Piper Cub. Henrard used a high-speed plate camera to systematically document the city from its outskirts to its centre. His photographs show not only(...)
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Above Paris : the aerial survey of Roger Henrard
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Between the years 1950 and 1972, when Paris was in the twilight of its classical period, pilot and photographer Roger Henrard preserved the city he knew and loved from the seat of a single-engine American army surplus Piper Cub. Henrard used a high-speed plate camera to systematically document the city from its outskirts to its centre. His photographs show not only Paris's stations, museums, department stores, and housing projects but also its urban fabric and interconnections - the tightly knit medieval districts as well as the rectilinear geometry of the Haussmanian boulevards. "Above Paris" is Henrard's study of the urban landscape of Paris and its best-known monuments. Images, grouped by themes such as the course of the Seine, the main roads, the stations, and the neighborhoods of Paris give a clear overview of the city's layout. Maps at the beginning of each chapter orient the reader.
Above Paris : the aerial survey of Roger Henrard
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Between the years 1950 and 1972, when Paris was in the twilight of its classical period, pilot and photographer Roger Henrard preserved the city he knew and loved from the seat of a single-engine American army surplus Piper Cub. Henrard used a high-speed plate camera to systematically document the city from its outskirts to its centre. His photographs show not only Paris's stations, museums, department stores, and housing projects but also its urban fabric and interconnections - the tightly knit medieval districts as well as the rectilinear geometry of the Haussmanian boulevards. "Above Paris" is Henrard's study of the urban landscape of Paris and its best-known monuments. Images, grouped by themes such as the course of the Seine, the main roads, the stations, and the neighborhoods of Paris give a clear overview of the city's layout. Maps at the beginning of each chapter orient the reader.
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October 2006, New York
October 2006, New York
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Urban Theory
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Leipzig is the perfect example of an east German boomtown. Courageous decisions were made early on, relocating, for instance, the exhibition site out of the inner city and building the most modern fair complex in Europe in just three years. Countless (...)
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Leipzig is the perfect example of an east German boomtown. Courageous decisions were made early on, relocating, for instance, the exhibition site out of the inner city and building the most modern fair complex in Europe in just three years. Countless (...)
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January 1900, Basel
January 1900, Basel
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Leipzig : buildings 1989-1999
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Leipzig is the perfect example of an east German boomtown. Courageous decisions were made early on, relocating, for instance, the exhibition site out of the inner city and building the most modern fair complex in Europe in just three years. Countless buildings for trade, commerce and the service industry have appeared, and Leipzig is now the largest finance centre in Germany after Frankfurt, with more than 100 bank branches. Leipzig has always profited from its long tradition as a commercial and bourgeois city, home to trade fairs, and at the beginning of this century Saxony's metropolis was the second richest city in Germany. The restoration of prestigious buildings such as the Madlerpassage and Specks Hof became well-known, even industrial monuments found new users and also residential and cultural buildings attracted attention. This book looks critically at the current situation, providing an overview of more than 70 selected buildings.
Leipzig : buildings 1989-1999
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Leipzig is the perfect example of an east German boomtown. Courageous decisions were made early on, relocating, for instance, the exhibition site out of the inner city and building the most modern fair complex in Europe in just three years. Countless buildings for trade, commerce and the service industry have appeared, and Leipzig is now the largest finance centre in Germany after Frankfurt, with more than 100 bank branches. Leipzig has always profited from its long tradition as a commercial and bourgeois city, home to trade fairs, and at the beginning of this century Saxony's metropolis was the second richest city in Germany. The restoration of prestigious buildings such as the Madlerpassage and Specks Hof became well-known, even industrial monuments found new users and also residential and cultural buildings attracted attention. This book looks critically at the current situation, providing an overview of more than 70 selected buildings.
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