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Author : Andrew Ayers
Publisher : Edition Axel Menges
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 393069896X
The author here presents an architectural history of Paris, stretching from the 3rd century BC up until the end of the 20th century.
Author : Ruby Boukabou
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781526779984
Discover the architectural history behind Paris’s iconic building, famous landmarks, and charming neighborhoods with this handy visual guidebook. As you stroll the streets of Paris, this informative volume will help you unlock the secrets of the city’s beguiling beauty. Covering the major landmarks as well as dozens of lesser-known architectural gems, The Architecture Lover’s Guide to Paris puts essential history and fascinating details at your fingertips. Whether you are a Paris regular or visiting for the first time, this guide will help you understand how the city acquired its unique design palette. It also offers self-guided walking tours and suggestions of some of the best hotels, restaurants, cafés, churches, parks and more. You’ll discover ancient Roman baths, 17th century mansions, Art Deco theaters, and contemporary cultural complexes. You’ll also find out where to kick back, cocktail or mock-tail in hand, with a panoramic view over the capital. Written by Ruby Boukabou, author of The Art Lover’s Guide to Paris, this book is the perfect companion for anybody intrigued by the City of Light.
Author : Charles Belfoure
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402284328
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A gripping page-turner...a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris. In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it while World War II rages on. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. Soon Lucien is hiding more souls and saving lives. But when one of his hideouts fails horribly, and the problem of where to conceal a Jew becomes much more personal, and he can no longer ignore what's at stake. Book clubs will pore over the questions Charles Belfoure raises about justice, resistance, and just how far we'll go to make things right. Also by Charles Belfoure: The Fallen Architect House of Thieves
Author : David Van Zanten
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058875702
Looks at the work of four nineteenth century French architects, including libraries, schools, a cathedral, and public buildings.
Author : Anthony Sutcliffe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300068867
In this extensively illustrated work, one of Paris' leading historians links the beauty of the city to its harmonious architecture, the product of a powerful tradition of classical design running from the Renaissance through the 20th century.
Author : Roy Johnston
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015066840185
Turn of the century Paris is often referred to as the belle époque, a golden age of affluence and artistic creativity before the turmoil of the First World War. This was the Paris of artists such as Bonnard, Rodin, Seurat and Vuillard, as well as writers and musicians such as Debussy, Zola and Maupassant. The Eiffel Tower had just been built and the Moulin Rouge was in its heyday - Paris was the cosmopolitan capital of pleasure and culture. The architecture of the period, however, has generally been neglected known only for the Art Nouveau designs of Guimard's Metro entrances and restaurants such as Maxim's. This book, based on a thorough survey of Parisian buildings of the era, connects the medievalism of Viollet-le-Duc, the classical tradition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and early developments in metal and concrete construction with modern pioneers like Perret, de Baudot and Sauvage. Including the exuberant designs by architects working in the 'Ritz style', as well as the work of a multitude of architects whose names are at present unknown, Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque is a truly comprehensive and visually sumptuous study of this under exposed period of architecture.
Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 027105087X
Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.
Author : Michael Herrman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0811868621
Author : Gilles Plazy
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822033322744
The inimitable French style comes to life in a beautiful volume that covers not only the rich art, architecture, and history of the world's most popular tourist destination, but brings you into jazz clubs, through public gardens, onto film sets, and around the surrealists' playground of the 1920s.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520053591
In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after Franois I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores this fascinating chapter of architectural history in his careful synthesis of documentary and technical sources. In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after Franois I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores this fascinating chapter of architectural history in his careful synthesis of documentary and technical sources.
Author : Janelle McCulloch,The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864703085
Mixing aesthetics, architecture, arrondissements, and elegance, this richly illustrated volume on the world's most bewitching city shows Paris in all its light, shade, glamour, and grandeur--from magnificent squares to exquisite side streets and tucked-away gardens.
Author : Sam Lubell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822035524818
In every era, Paris had epitomized beauty and innovation in architecture--magnificent Gothic cathedrals, elegant hotels and chateaux of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the broad sweep of Haussmann in the 1870s, and most recently the Grand Projets of Francois Mitterand. Paris 2000+ focuses on the exceptional projects built in the French capital since 2000. Works by French masters like Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc and international building firms such as Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Herzog and de Meuron, and UN Studio are featured alongside projects by emerging French practices to create a lively presentation of the best contemporary projects. Author Sam Lubell has selected thirty buildings to convey the energy and creativity of architects working in Paris and its environs. Among them are the controversial Musee du Quai Branly, the glamorous Louis Vuitton flagship store on the Champs-Elysees, the restoration of the historic Publicis Drugstore, also on the Champs-Elysees, a graceful pedestrian bridge across the Seine, a new Metro strop, and an experimental house in the Parc de la Villette.
Author : Cynthia R. Field,Isabelle Gournay,Thomas P. Somma
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780821442395
In 1910 John Merven Carrère, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, “Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities.” The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C., which continued long after the well-known contributions of Peter Charles L’Enfant, the transplanted French military officer who designed the city’s plan. Isabelle Gournay’s introductory essay provides an overview and examines the context and issues involved in three distinct periods of French influence: the classical and Enlightenment principles that prevailed from the 1790s through the 1820s, the Second Empire style of the 1850s through the 1870s, and the Beaux-Arts movement of the early twentieth century. William C. Allen and Thomas P. Somma present two case studies: Allen on the influence of French architecture, especially the Halle aux Blés, on Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the U.S. Capitol; and Somma on David d’Angers’s busts of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. Liana Paredes offers a richly detailed examination of French-inspired interior decoration in the homes of Washington’s elite in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cynthia R. Field concludes the volume with a consideration of the influence of Paris on city planning in Washington, D.C., including the efforts of the McMillan Commission and the later development of the Federal Triangle complex. The essays in this collection, the latest addition to the series Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol, originated in a conference held by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society in 2002 at the French Embassy’s Maison Française.
Author : François Loyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015046455260
Author : Chris van Uffelen,Markus Golser
Publisher : Braun Publishing AG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037681128
The "Golden City" has always been one of Europe's architectural hubs. Prague's impressive appearance is shaped as much by its varied and exciting history as by the exceptional creativity of outstanding architects working there. This guidebook is a valuable companion through the architectural culture of this complex and fascinating city. Two proven experts, Chris van Uffelen and Markus Golser, guide the reader through all historical architectural eras - from medieval times to the present. The chronological sequence and high-quality photos clearly reflect the typical characteristics of every era. In addition to approximately 300 individual buildings, the most prominent architects of Prague and each era are introduced. Two detailed maps enable visitors to explore and discover Prague according to their own interests.