New York : cité géante.
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L'évolution de l'environnement urbain de New York est ici décrite à travers l'histoire de ses chefs-d'œuvre architecturaux et de ses infrastructures savamment étudiées. Introduction de Christopher Gray.
New York : cité géante.
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L'évolution de l'environnement urbain de New York est ici décrite à travers l'histoire de ses chefs-d'œuvre architecturaux et de ses infrastructures savamment étudiées. Introduction de Christopher Gray.
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Montpellier monumental
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L'urbanisme et l'architecture civile de Montpellier ont fait l'objet de recherches approfondies de la part du service régional de l'Inventaire. Trois volumes sont déjà parus dans cette collection. Le quatrième porte sur les édifices publics, militaires et religieux depuis l'âge roman jusqu'aux années 1950. Il permet de découvrir un patrimoine exceptionnel à plus d'un(...)
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August 2005, Paris
Montpellier monumental
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L'urbanisme et l'architecture civile de Montpellier ont fait l'objet de recherches approfondies de la part du service régional de l'Inventaire. Trois volumes sont déjà parus dans cette collection. Le quatrième porte sur les édifices publics, militaires et religieux depuis l'âge roman jusqu'aux années 1950. Il permet de découvrir un patrimoine exceptionnel à plus d'un titre, représentatif de l'époque classique, âge d'or de l'architecture montpelliéraine, ou témoin de la spécialisation de la ville dans l'architecture hospitalière. Il permet aussi de comprendre le rôle joué par l'Eglise, les intendants, les édiles, l'Etat et met en lumière la tragédie que furent pour la ville les guerres de Religion.
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The colosseum
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Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes(...)
The colosseum
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Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chockfull of romantic but erroneous myths. There is no evidence that any gladiator ever said "Hail Caesar, those about to die..." and we know of not one single Christian martyr who met his finish here. Yet the reality is much stranger than the legend as the authors, two prominent classical historians, explain in this absorbing account. We learn the details of how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument--as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory. Why are we so fascinated with this arena of death?
History until 1900
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Barcelona's brand of Art Nouveau was characterized by organic shapes and patterns integrated by all aspects of art and design. The movement, along with its high craftsmanship, was interpreted to be a spontaneous reaction to the Industrial Revolution’s trend of mass production. Besides being a survey of the most significant buildings by Domenech i Montaner, Antoni Gaudí,(...)
In detail : Barcelona art nouveau
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Barcelona's brand of Art Nouveau was characterized by organic shapes and patterns integrated by all aspects of art and design. The movement, along with its high craftsmanship, was interpreted to be a spontaneous reaction to the Industrial Revolution’s trend of mass production. Besides being a survey of the most significant buildings by Domenech i Montaner, Antoni Gaudí, Josep Maria Jujol, and Puig i Cadafalch, this book also provides a detailed analysis of the forms created by the most important craftsmen of the period, many of whom have been relegated to anonymity for decades.
History until 1900
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This book, a documentary history, records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions, as we know them today, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century(...)
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May 2004, London / New York
The emergence of modern architecture : a documentary history from 1000 to 1810
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This book, a documentary history, records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions, as we know them today, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.
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Moscou : mémoire d'une ville
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Ce parcours d'un piéton amoureux de Moscou en restitue 1a profusion architecturale, en découvre les visages multiples et méconnus : car Moscou n'est pas seulement le Kremlin ni le champ épique des urbanistes soviétiques ni le rutilant décor de la ville d'aujourd'hui. L'auteur fait resurgir la mémoire de Moscou. La ville pieuse des " quarante fois quarante églises ", des(...)
Moscou : mémoire d'une ville
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Ce parcours d'un piéton amoureux de Moscou en restitue 1a profusion architecturale, en découvre les visages multiples et méconnus : car Moscou n'est pas seulement le Kremlin ni le champ épique des urbanistes soviétiques ni le rutilant décor de la ville d'aujourd'hui. L'auteur fait resurgir la mémoire de Moscou. La ville pieuse des " quarante fois quarante églises ", des splendides monastères. L'âge classique, très long et très beau, d'une ville qui demeura malgré la fondation de Pétersbourg, en 1703, le séjour préféré de la noblesse. Les exquis " boulevards ", conservatoire de l'urbanisme ancien. Les domaines de campagne, absorbés dans le tissu même de la ville par l'urbanisation. La foisonnante Moscou capitaliste : gares, usines, magasins, hôtels de marchands, maisons de rapport, musées et théâtres, construits dans les styles les plus divers, au fil des goûts et des techniques. Enfin, l'architecture soviétique: l'époque d'avant-garde, splendide et décisive dans l'histoire de l'architecture mondiale bien qu'elle art peu affecté l'aspect même de sa capitale; l'époque stalinienne, héroïque, historiciste, parfois décriée, mais qui a marqué le visage de la ville comme Haussmann celui de Paris. Délaissant à dessein le style "international" qui s'instaure avec Khrouchtchev et l'agressive vulgarité de l'immobilier contemporain, le livre conduit son lecteur dans le dédale des ruelles, des lieux méconnus que l'on découvre à l'écart et lui fait ressentir le véritable esprit de la ville 1a plus " russe " de Russie. Photograhies d'Alexandre Viktorov, d'Alexandre Rozanov, d'Ekaterina Chorban.
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September 2002, Paris
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This guidebook to the history of architecture in Venice encompasses the city’s variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated, this edition of Deborah Howard’s classic volume, first published in 1980, is filled with new illustrations. Howard traces the entire evolution of Venice’s architecture, placing special emphasis on the political,(...)
The architectural history of Venice
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This guidebook to the history of architecture in Venice encompasses the city’s variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated, this edition of Deborah Howard’s classic volume, first published in 1980, is filled with new illustrations. Howard traces the entire evolution of Venice’s architecture, placing special emphasis on the political, social, and economic framework that supported it. She highlights the achievements of such individual architects as Sansovino, Palladio, Longhena, Massari, and Selva.
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In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her eight-year odyssey took her over ninety thousand miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the(...)
Fifty houses : images from the American road
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In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her eight-year odyssey took her over ninety thousand miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand "house portraits," Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in Fifty Houses. Shot with black-and-white infrared film, the homes captured through Sorlien's lens range from the grand to the humble, from the historic to the commonplace. Included here are a classic saltbox in Newtown, Connecticut; the House on the Rocks in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay; a mobile home in Bushnell, Florida; a Stick-style folk Victorian in Biloxi, Mississippi; a limestone cottage in Fredericksburg, Texas; a false-front house in Rollins, Montana; a log cabin in Dubois, Wyoming; an adobe dwelling in Sante Fe, New Mexico; and a platform tent in Healy, Alaska. Each image is accompanied by a vignette from Sorlien's road journal, offering details of the house depicted, its owners and history, other houses in the region, or her travel experiences in the state.
History until 1900
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Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation.
Italian architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini
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Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation.
History until 1900
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century(...)
Architecture of the nineteenth century
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century architecture in France and England, countries where Cartesian-school philosophical speculation and Anglo-Saxon philosophical empiricism wielded a determining influence. After analysing the developments of the classical tradition and its propagation throughout Europe, the book studies in depth the history of architectural movements, comprising neo-classicism, neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic architecture. The outstanding, forerunning personalities of this brilliant artistic period who, in the course of the nineteenth century, offered fecund theoretic and stylistic contributions, include Gottfried Semper, John Ruskin and Eugène Viollet-le Duc.
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