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Jean-Jacques Lequeu, dessinateur en architecture

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Jean Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826) est davantage connu comme 'architecte visionnaire' et 'révolutionnaire' que comme dessinateur en architecture issu de l'école gratuite de Rouen. Philippe Duboÿ lui a consacré sa thèse de doctorat, suivie d'un livre publié à Londres en 1986, puis aux ÉtatsUnis, et enfin en France, apportant ainsi toute la connaissance actuelle de cet extraordinaire individu. C'est ce texte amendé qui compose cet ouvrage, augmenté de plusieurs manuscrits de ou sur Lequeu.

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Begin again, fail better: Preliminary drawings in architecture and art

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"Begin again, fail better: preliminary drawings in architecture" engages with one of the principal activities of the architect in the process of design: drawing by hand, and more specifically, the act of beginning those drawings. Architects try, fail, try again, fail better until they start to move in the direction that ultimately becomes a building . . . or not. This book brings together some 180 preliminary architecture drawings. More than fifty contemporary Swiss architecture firms each contributed two pieces that reveal something of their individual approach and understanding of architecture. This selection is enhanced by historical works from four significant British and Swiss archival collections dating back to the sixteenth century and up to the twentieth. The illustrations are complemented by essays providing a critical and historical framework, as well as a conversation engaging with the conditions and importance of failure within the design process. Brief interludes by international architects, archivists, and teachers, introducing a range of perspectives, round out this beautiful volume.

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Dessiner la Grèce : L'oeil et la main de Carl Haller von Hallerstein

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Architecte et dessinateur, voyageur infatigable, savant précis et scrupuleux, Carl Haller von Hallerstein (1774-1817) occupe une place centrale parmi les précurseurs de l’archéologie classique, bien que sa disparition prématurée l’ait privé d’une plus large renommé, notamment en France. S’appuyant sur l’exploration du fonds d’archives conservé à la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, cet ouvrage croise les perspectives d’historiens de l’art, d’historiens du livre et d’archéologues et permet ainsi de mieux appréhender le regard porté par Haller von Hallerstein, non seulement sur les vestiges archéologiques de la Grèce ancienne, mais également sur les paysages et les populations qrecques, albanaises et turques qui, au début du XIXe siècle, peuplent la Grèce à la veille de son indépendance.

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Infinite perspectives : two thousand years of three-dimensional mapmaking

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Whether from military necessity or unbridled curiosity, mapmakers since early antiquity have attempted to represent the configuration of the land about them. The Greeks paid homage to the landscape and struck its image on their coins. Medieval scholars viewed the highest elevations as a boundary between the physical and the spiritual; the images they created of their sacred shrines and historic sites were drawn atop simple caricatures of mountains. Leonardo da Vinci's maps of Tuscany and other more realistic representations of landforms appeared during the Renaissance, thanks to a wealth of scientific study and new artistic methods. In the modern era, new techniques were invented as attempts to portray the three-dimensional world on a flat surface became more sophisticated. Hachuring, a system that involves shading with fine parallel or crossed lines, was developed with the use of copper plates; contour lines slowly replaced this technique in the nineteenth century. Lithography allowed for the introduction of color to the printing process, and multi-color tints were used to impart a sense of elevation. Aerial and satellite photography and the dawn of the digital era have yielded maps of unprecedented realism; today's computer technology allows planetary surfaces to be portrayed in three dimensions with a precision unimaginable to previous generations of mapmakers. "Infinite Perspectives" traces the artistic and scientific evolution of topographic representation from its origins to the present. Over 80 colour plates of some of the most significant maps ever made detail important advances in the portrayal of three dimensions in map form. The final section of the book contains 20 plates presenting a revolutionary cartographic technique that allows viewers wearing ordinary 3D glasses to view planetary surfaces without distortion. This invention, developed by the authors with Dr. Russell Ambroziak and named Infinite Perspective Projection, is currently in use by NASA and the Department of Defense. Included are maps of Mars, the Grand Canyon, and Mount McKinley, as well as one large fold-out map, suitable for framing; two pairs of the necessary 3D viewing glasses are also provided.

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Bird's eye view : historic lithographs of North American cities

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This sequel to our highly acclaimed title "An Atlas of Rare City Maps" collects over 100 views dating between 1835 and 1902, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges, waterways, and surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns and mining camps. Baltimore, Brooklyn, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Montreal, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Syracuse, and Washington are just a few of the cities presented in this collection. The exquisite colour and fine detail of these bird's eye views have been reproduced in all their original glory; also included is an introduction by John W. Reps providing a background on the artistic process and on urban development in the nineteenth century.

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Maps and politics

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Do maps accurately and objectively present the information we expect them to portray, or are they instead colored by the political purposes of their makers? In this lively and well-illustrated book, Jeremy Black investigates this dangerous territory, arguing persuasively that the supposed "objectivity" of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation.

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Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World

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This book examines how the structure and content of medieval maps can provide an intriguing insight into how medieval mapmakers and readers saw their world.

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Apollo's eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Western imagination

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In "Apollo's Eye", geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity. Cosgrove constructs a genealogy of global images from classical Greece and Rome to the present, giving special attention to the early sixteenth century, when Europeans circumnavigated the earth, relocated it within their understanding of the cosmos, and revolutionized its representation in models and maps. Each chapter focuses on specific images of the globe or whole earth, reproduced in a wealth of illustrations. Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged.

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Manhattan in maps 1527-1995

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This lavishly illustrated volume explores New York's urban and social history through rare and beautiful maps of the city produced over the last four hundred years and collected from archives and libraries throughout the world.

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Fragments de la Rome antique

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Fragments de la Rome antique dans les dessins des architectes français vainqueurs du Prix de Rome 1786-1924.