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"Last Landscapes" is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed ‘cities of the dead’, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature(...)
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"Last Landscapes" is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed ‘cities of the dead’, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature(...)
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Last landscapes : the architecture of the cemetery in the west
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"Last Landscapes" is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed ‘cities of the dead’, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature in this book include the war cemeteries of northern France, Viking burial islands in central Sweden, Etruscan tombs and early Christian catacombs in Italy, the 17th-century Portuguese–Jewish cemetery 'Beth Haim' at Ouderkerk in the Netherlands, Forest Lawns in California, Derek Jarman’s garden in Kent and the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery. It is a fact that architecture ‘began with the tomb', yet, as Ken Worpole shows us in Last Landscapes, many historic cemeteries have been demolished or abandoned in recent times (notably the case with Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe), and there has been an increasing loss of inscription and memorialization in the modern urban cemetery. Too often cemeteries today are both poorly designed and physically and culturally marginalized. Worse, cremation denies a full architectural response to the mystery and solemnity of death. The author explores how modes of disposal – burial, cremation, inhumation in mausoleums and wall tombs – vary across Europe and North America, according to religious and other cultural influences. And Last Landscapes raises profound questions as to how, in an age of mass cremation, architects and landscape designers might create meaningful structures and settings in the absence of a body, since for most of history the human body itself has provided the fundamental structural scale. This evocative book also contemplates other forms of memorialization within modern societies, from sculptures to parks, most notably the extraordinary Duisberg Park, set in a former giant steelworks in Germany’s Ruhr Valley.
Last landscapes : the architecture of the cemetery in the west
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"Last Landscapes" is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed ‘cities of the dead’, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature in this book include the war cemeteries of northern France, Viking burial islands in central Sweden, Etruscan tombs and early Christian catacombs in Italy, the 17th-century Portuguese–Jewish cemetery 'Beth Haim' at Ouderkerk in the Netherlands, Forest Lawns in California, Derek Jarman’s garden in Kent and the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery. It is a fact that architecture ‘began with the tomb', yet, as Ken Worpole shows us in Last Landscapes, many historic cemeteries have been demolished or abandoned in recent times (notably the case with Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe), and there has been an increasing loss of inscription and memorialization in the modern urban cemetery. Too often cemeteries today are both poorly designed and physically and culturally marginalized. Worse, cremation denies a full architectural response to the mystery and solemnity of death. The author explores how modes of disposal – burial, cremation, inhumation in mausoleums and wall tombs – vary across Europe and North America, according to religious and other cultural influences. And Last Landscapes raises profound questions as to how, in an age of mass cremation, architects and landscape designers might create meaningful structures and settings in the absence of a body, since for most of history the human body itself has provided the fundamental structural scale. This evocative book also contemplates other forms of memorialization within modern societies, from sculptures to parks, most notably the extraordinary Duisberg Park, set in a former giant steelworks in Germany’s Ruhr Valley.
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157 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
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Arles : Actes Sud, [2025], ©2025
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Souterrains du monde / Jérôme et Laurent Triolet.
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From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's Collège (1661-70), the Parisian landmark that now houses the Institut de France. In this first English-language book on Louis XIV's celebrated architect, Hilary Ballon deftly portrays the brilliance and(...)
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From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's Collège (1661-70), the Parisian landmark that now houses the Institut de France. In this first English-language book on Louis XIV's celebrated architect, Hilary Ballon deftly portrays the brilliance and(...)
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Louis Le Vau : Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's revenge
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From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's Collège (1661-70), the Parisian landmark that now houses the Institut de France. In this first English-language book on Louis XIV's celebrated architect, Hilary Ballon deftly portrays the brilliance and controversy of Le Vau's late career through an exploration of this masterpiece, a hybrid of baroque and classical styles. She tracks the design and construction of the Collège on the basis of splendid drawings, fully illustrated here, integrating into this account previously unknown dimensions of Le Vau's creative personality, his financial entanglements, and his feuds with government leaders. The story of the Collège begins in 1661 with the death of Cardinal Mazarin, who left an extravagant sum of money for a school to be built in his memory. Le Vau responded with an ambitious architectural tribute intended to launch the development of Paris in a new artistic direction. As Ballon shows, many personal factors figured into the final product, including Le Vau's activities as a real estate developer and entrepreneur, and his explosive response to the Italian baroque master Gianlorenzo Bernini, who visited Paris in 1665. The project ended up significantly over budget, and officials charged Le Vau shortly after his death with embezzling funds. The chief minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, led the attack on Le Vau, turning the ethical scandal into an aesthetic crusade to maintain a "classical" look for central Paris. By relating the intriguing context in which the Collège was created, Ballon explains why traditional definitions of the baroque and classical styles have failed to offer a cohesive understanding of the building. Her examination of the elements informing Le Vau's personal style and his relationship with Colbert brings into sharper focus the phenomenon of royal patronage and opens a new perspective on the development of French classicism at a turning point in Parisian architectural history.
Louis Le Vau : Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's revenge
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From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's Collège (1661-70), the Parisian landmark that now houses the Institut de France. In this first English-language book on Louis XIV's celebrated architect, Hilary Ballon deftly portrays the brilliance and controversy of Le Vau's late career through an exploration of this masterpiece, a hybrid of baroque and classical styles. She tracks the design and construction of the Collège on the basis of splendid drawings, fully illustrated here, integrating into this account previously unknown dimensions of Le Vau's creative personality, his financial entanglements, and his feuds with government leaders. The story of the Collège begins in 1661 with the death of Cardinal Mazarin, who left an extravagant sum of money for a school to be built in his memory. Le Vau responded with an ambitious architectural tribute intended to launch the development of Paris in a new artistic direction. As Ballon shows, many personal factors figured into the final product, including Le Vau's activities as a real estate developer and entrepreneur, and his explosive response to the Italian baroque master Gianlorenzo Bernini, who visited Paris in 1665. The project ended up significantly over budget, and officials charged Le Vau shortly after his death with embezzling funds. The chief minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, led the attack on Le Vau, turning the ethical scandal into an aesthetic crusade to maintain a "classical" look for central Paris. By relating the intriguing context in which the Collège was created, Ballon explains why traditional definitions of the baroque and classical styles have failed to offer a cohesive understanding of the building. Her examination of the elements informing Le Vau's personal style and his relationship with Colbert brings into sharper focus the phenomenon of royal patronage and opens a new perspective on the development of French classicism at a turning point in Parisian architectural history.
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janvier 1900, Princeton
janvier 1900, Princeton
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Le dossier « Hôpital, hospitalité » est consacré aux lieux d’hospitalisation. Les projets présentés témoignent des approches et conceptions qui prennent en compte aussi bien les nouveaux besoins humains que les nouvelles technologies. Recherches d’échelles, exploration de typologies. Le rite festif du salon du meuble de Milan a encore eu lieu cette année, associant les(...)
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Le dossier « Hôpital, hospitalité » est consacré aux lieux d’hospitalisation. Les projets présentés témoignent des approches et conceptions qui prennent en compte aussi bien les nouveaux besoins humains que les nouvelles technologies. Recherches d’échelles, exploration de typologies. Le rite festif du salon du meuble de Milan a encore eu lieu cette année, associant les(...)
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Techniques & architecture 460 : hôpital, hospitalité / hospital, hospitality, actualité Suisse expo.02
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Le dossier « Hôpital, hospitalité » est consacré aux lieux d’hospitalisation. Les projets présentés témoignent des approches et conceptions qui prennent en compte aussi bien les nouveaux besoins humains que les nouvelles technologies. Recherches d’échelles, exploration de typologies. Le rite festif du salon du meuble de Milan a encore eu lieu cette année, associant les galeries alentour. Plus industrielle et économe en matière, ainsi pourrait-on qualifier la tendance actuelle. Un nouveau matériau : l’air. Dans ce numéro, un tour d’horizon des événements qui ont jalonné la saison estivale. Parmi eux, Archilab à Orléans : autour du thème « Economie de la Terre », les démarches écologico-humano-contextuelles se groupent de manière un peu convenue autour des réalisations dont on retrouvera certaines (M. Gautrand, Périphériques, Jakob et MacFarlane et de nouvelles têtes : dZO, RMDM, Avignon-Clouet, etc.) à la Biennale de Venise. Une manifestation sous la houlette de Deyan Sudjic qui privilégie réalités matérielles par rapport aux représentations virtuelles des années précédentes. Mais le point fort de notre actualité est sans conteste le souffle qui passe cet été, jusqu’au 15 octobre, sur les lacs suisses – dans quatre sites, Neuchâtel, Bienne, Morat, Yverdon-les-Bains, et sur une barge. Là, les palais provisoires d’Expo.O2 émergent des eaux et des brumes vaporisées par Diller & Scofidio. A visiter. Dans une tonalité plus urbaine, à l’Est de Paris, les friches industrielles du quartier Masséna de la Zac Paris Rive Gauche, frigos, entrepôts et moulins portent des projets d’universités et de jeunesse – un ballon d’oxygène. Une initiative heureuse, également, venant de la Mission Arts et Culture : les enfants d’écoles maternelles exposent leurs cabanes inventées avec leur maître ou maîtresse, des architectes et des artistes. Soline Nivet, enseignante en architecture, évoque dans Humeur, comment les étudiants composent avec l’enseignement en architecture pour se frayer leur propre chemin. Pour apporter des solutions aux nouvelles pollutions que nous rencontrons quotidiennement, la rubrique Mise en œuvre fait le point sur les modes de ventilation intérieure et la réglementation en vigueur.
Techniques & architecture 460 : hôpital, hospitalité / hospital, hospitality, actualité Suisse expo.02
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Le dossier « Hôpital, hospitalité » est consacré aux lieux d’hospitalisation. Les projets présentés témoignent des approches et conceptions qui prennent en compte aussi bien les nouveaux besoins humains que les nouvelles technologies. Recherches d’échelles, exploration de typologies. Le rite festif du salon du meuble de Milan a encore eu lieu cette année, associant les galeries alentour. Plus industrielle et économe en matière, ainsi pourrait-on qualifier la tendance actuelle. Un nouveau matériau : l’air. Dans ce numéro, un tour d’horizon des événements qui ont jalonné la saison estivale. Parmi eux, Archilab à Orléans : autour du thème « Economie de la Terre », les démarches écologico-humano-contextuelles se groupent de manière un peu convenue autour des réalisations dont on retrouvera certaines (M. Gautrand, Périphériques, Jakob et MacFarlane et de nouvelles têtes : dZO, RMDM, Avignon-Clouet, etc.) à la Biennale de Venise. Une manifestation sous la houlette de Deyan Sudjic qui privilégie réalités matérielles par rapport aux représentations virtuelles des années précédentes. Mais le point fort de notre actualité est sans conteste le souffle qui passe cet été, jusqu’au 15 octobre, sur les lacs suisses – dans quatre sites, Neuchâtel, Bienne, Morat, Yverdon-les-Bains, et sur une barge. Là, les palais provisoires d’Expo.O2 émergent des eaux et des brumes vaporisées par Diller & Scofidio. A visiter. Dans une tonalité plus urbaine, à l’Est de Paris, les friches industrielles du quartier Masséna de la Zac Paris Rive Gauche, frigos, entrepôts et moulins portent des projets d’universités et de jeunesse – un ballon d’oxygène. Une initiative heureuse, également, venant de la Mission Arts et Culture : les enfants d’écoles maternelles exposent leurs cabanes inventées avec leur maître ou maîtresse, des architectes et des artistes. Soline Nivet, enseignante en architecture, évoque dans Humeur, comment les étudiants composent avec l’enseignement en architecture pour se frayer leur propre chemin. Pour apporter des solutions aux nouvelles pollutions que nous rencontrons quotidiennement, la rubrique Mise en œuvre fait le point sur les modes de ventilation intérieure et la réglementation en vigueur.
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juin 2002, Paris
juin 2002, Paris
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The book reproduces a series of the collages made by David Wild. Their subject is modern architecture in the first half of the twentieth century: in the Netherlands, in Russia, and in the work of Le Corbusier. The method of the book is to show a collage on a right-hand page; then on the facing page is a (...)
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The book reproduces a series of the collages made by David Wild. Their subject is modern architecture in the first half of the twentieth century: in the Netherlands, in Russia, and in the work of Le Corbusier. The method of the book is to show a collage on a right-hand page; then on the facing page is a (...)
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Fragments of utopia: collage reflections of heroic modernism
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The book reproduces a series of the collages made by David Wild. Their subject is modern architecture in the first half of the twentieth century: in the Netherlands, in Russia, and in the work of Le Corbusier. The method of the book is to show a collage on a right-hand page; then on the facing page is a prose commentary by Wild and supporting smaller images. Introducing the book, David Wild explains that the impulse for this work lies in the aftermath of a fire in his house: his scorched books lent themselves to collage. He goes on to sketch the cultural-political climate in Britain over the last 40 years: the backdrop to his work as an architect and (less directly) to this book. In the opening section on the Netherlands, the leading theme is an architecture of social equity and continuity. Rooted in old cultural traditions, and in the particular ‘football-pitch’ landscape of the country, modern architecture could realise some of its dreams in everyday buildings. Postage stamps play an active part in many of the book’s collages, and especially in this section: the design of stamps flourished in the Netherlands, through the enlightened patronage of the Dutch post office — with several architects designing stamps too. Politics and history come to prominence in the Russian section, as a motivating force in the work of the early 1920s, and then as a heavy burden — with the onset of totalitarian control and repression. At the centre of the discussion here is the architecture of constructivism: formally brilliant, but with a clear social programme. Flight and the exploration of space are recurring topics in this section, as another and particularly Russian dimension of utopian striving The work of Le Corbusier, in Europe, North and South America, Russia and India, is treated in the third section. Le Corbusier is presented as a brilliant artist, a master architect of the greatest skill and the greatest ambition — and without scruple in pursuing commissions. The images and text follow him into the years after the Second World War, culminating in the work in India. Here there is a vision of another kind of politics, of co-operation and non-violence.
Fragments of utopia: collage reflections of heroic modernism
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The book reproduces a series of the collages made by David Wild. Their subject is modern architecture in the first half of the twentieth century: in the Netherlands, in Russia, and in the work of Le Corbusier. The method of the book is to show a collage on a right-hand page; then on the facing page is a prose commentary by Wild and supporting smaller images. Introducing the book, David Wild explains that the impulse for this work lies in the aftermath of a fire in his house: his scorched books lent themselves to collage. He goes on to sketch the cultural-political climate in Britain over the last 40 years: the backdrop to his work as an architect and (less directly) to this book. In the opening section on the Netherlands, the leading theme is an architecture of social equity and continuity. Rooted in old cultural traditions, and in the particular ‘football-pitch’ landscape of the country, modern architecture could realise some of its dreams in everyday buildings. Postage stamps play an active part in many of the book’s collages, and especially in this section: the design of stamps flourished in the Netherlands, through the enlightened patronage of the Dutch post office — with several architects designing stamps too. Politics and history come to prominence in the Russian section, as a motivating force in the work of the early 1920s, and then as a heavy burden — with the onset of totalitarian control and repression. At the centre of the discussion here is the architecture of constructivism: formally brilliant, but with a clear social programme. Flight and the exploration of space are recurring topics in this section, as another and particularly Russian dimension of utopian striving The work of Le Corbusier, in Europe, North and South America, Russia and India, is treated in the third section. Le Corbusier is presented as a brilliant artist, a master architect of the greatest skill and the greatest ambition — and without scruple in pursuing commissions. The images and text follow him into the years after the Second World War, culminating in the work in India. Here there is a vision of another kind of politics, of co-operation and non-violence.
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janvier 1900, London
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