Main entry:

Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875.

Title & Author:

Henri Labrouste : structure brought to light / Corinne Bélier, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc Le Cœur ; with essays by Martin Bressani [and others].

Publication:

Description:

270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
"In association with the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, with the special participation of the Académie d'architecture and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève."
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 10-June 24, 2013"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-267).
Introduction / Corinne Bélier, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc Le Cœur -- Historiography / Barry Bergdoll -- Part 1: An architect of silence / Marc Le Cœur -- Labrouste and Italy / Barry Bergdoll -- The Paestum controversy / Martin Bressani -- Part 2: The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and 'healing" architecture / Martin Bressani and Marc Grignon -- From feather to stone: the Construction site journal and building the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève / Marie Hélène de La Mure -- The Bibliothèque Nationale between rationalism and illusionism / Marc Le Cœure -- The public library at the dawn of the new library science, Henri Labrouste's two major works and their typological underpinnings / Neil Levine -- Labrouste and iron / Bertrand Lemoine -- Part 3: Labrouste and his school / Marc Le Cœur -- Lessons in artistic freedom: Labrouste's Dutch pupils and his impact in the Netherlands / Sigrid de Jong -- Henri Labrouste and the American architectural imagination / David Van Zanten -- Corrinne Bélier -- Appendices : Labrouste's principal projects and constructions / Marc Le Cœur -- Selected bibliography / Marc Le Cœur -- Labrouste and his archives / Marc Le Cœur, Gérard Uniack, Marie Hélène de La Mure.

Summary:

Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects consistently lionized as a precursor of modern architecture throughout the twentieth century and into our own time. The two magisterial glass-and-iron reading rooms he built in Paris gave form to the idea of the modern library as a collective civic space. His influence was both immediate and long-lasting, not only on the development of the modern library but also on the exploration of new paradigms of space, materials and luminosity in places of great public assembly. Published to accompany the first exhibition devoted to Labrouste in the United States - and the first anywhere in the world in nearly 40 years - this publication presents nearly 225 works in all media, including drawings, watercolors, vintage and modern photographs, film stills and architectural models. Essays by a range of international architecture scholars explore Labrouste's work and legacy through a variety of approaches.

ISBN:

0870708392
9780870708398

Subject:

Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875 Exhibitions.
Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875 Influence Exhibitions.
Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875.
Labrouste, Henri 1801-1875
Architecture France History 19th century Exhibitions.
Library buildings France Exhibitions.
Architecture France Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Bibliothèques (Édifices) France Expositions.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Library buildings
Architektur
Bibliotheksbau
France

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bélier, Corinne.
Bergdoll, Barry.
Le Cœur, Marc.
Bressani, Martin.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)
Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Structure brought to light

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282990
Call No.: BIB 220947
Status: Available