Made In France: French Architectural Masterpieces

Made In France: French Architectural Masterpieces
Author: A.J. Kingston
Publisher: A.J. Kingston
Total Pages: 254
Release: 101-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 183938509X

🇫🇷 Discover the Essence of France's Architectural Brilliance! 🏛️ Step into the world of timeless beauty, innovation, and cultural legacy with our book bundle, "Made in France: French Architectural Masterpieces." This captivating collection invites you on an extraordinary journey through the most iconic structures that have defined France's architectural landscape for centuries. 📚 Here's what awaits you in this bundle: Book 1 - Eiffel Tower Unveiled (1889-2023) 🗼 Explore the birth of the Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel's audacious vision, and its remarkable evolution over more than a century. From construction challenges to its role in world history, this book unveils the iron giant's secrets. Book 2 - Gothic Grandeur (1163-2023) ⛪ Immerse yourself in the timeless tale of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Discover its awe-inspiring creation during the Middle Ages, its resilience through the centuries, and the profound impact it has had on art, culture, and history. Book 3 - Versailles: Palace of Kings and Revolution (17th-21st Century) 🏰 Step into the opulent world of Versailles, brought to life by Louis XIV. Explore how this magnificent palace played a pivotal role in French history, from royal extravagance to the fires of revolution. Book 4 - The Louvre: A Timeless Masterpiece (12th-21st Century) 🖼️ Journey through the Louvre Museum, from its medieval origins to a global icon of art and culture. Discover the evolution of this historic institution and its treasures, from the Mona Lisa to modern masterpieces. 📜 What Makes This Bundle Special: 🌟 Immerse Yourself in History: Dive deep into the rich histories of these architectural marvels, from their conception to the present day. 🎨 Art and Innovation: Explore the intersections of art, architecture, and innovation that have shaped these masterpieces. 🌍 Global Significance: Understand the global impact and enduring legacies of these iconic structures. 📖 Beautifully Crafted: Meticulously researched and thoughtfully written, each book is a work of art in itself. 🎁 The Perfect Gift: Whether you're an architecture enthusiast, history buff, or simply curious about France's cultural treasures, this bundle makes an ideal gift. Experience the magic of France through its architectural wonders. "Made in France: French Architectural Masterpieces" is your ticket to a world of beauty, history, and inspiration. Don't miss this opportunity to own a piece of France's cultural heritage. Order your bundle today and embark on a journey through centuries of architectural brilliance! 🇫🇷🏛️✨

Architecture in France 1800-1900

Architecture in France 1800-1900
Author: Bertrand Lemoine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1998-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Covers the history of French architecture during the 19th century.

Le Corbusier: The Built Work

Le Corbusier: The Built Work
Author: Richard Pare
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580934714

The most thoroughgoing survey of nearly all of Le Corbusier's extant projects, beautifully photographed and authoritatively detailed. Le Corbusier is widely acknowledged as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. As extensively researched and documented as his works are, however, they have never been exhaustively surveyed in photographs until now. Photographer Richard Pare has crossed the globe for years to document the extant works of Le Corbusier--from his first villas in Switzerland to his mid-career works in his role as the first global architect in locations as far-flung as Argentina and Russia, and his late works, including his sole North American project, at Harvard University, and an extensive civic plan for Chandigarh, India. Le Corbusier: The Built Work provides numerous views of each project to bring a fuller understanding of the architect's command of space, sometimes surprising use of materials and color, and the almost ineffable qualities that only result from a commanding synthesis of all aspects of design. With an authoritative text by scholar and curator Jean-Louis Cohen, Le Corbusier: The Built Work is a groundbreaking opportunity to appreciate the master's work anew.

Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century

Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Wend Graf Kalnein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300060130

Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century Wend von Kalnein French architecture of the eighteenth century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe. This handsome book is a survey of the French architecture of the period. It begins with the origins of the 'style moderne' under the last years of Louis XIV, discusses the end of Rococo and the return to antiquity, and concludes with the Revolutionary architecture and the house of Madame Récamier. Kalnein describes the development of palace and hôtel architecture by the two great architects de Cotte and Boffrand, discussing such large urban projects as the reconstruction of Rennes and the Places Royales. He traces the return to antiquity (which began when the scholars of the Académie d'Architecture were sent to Rome), the revolutionary architecture with its grand, but never executed, projects, and the shift from neoclassicism to early romanticism. Kalnein also examines the decorative arts of the period, which became even more important than architecture in the Rococo period. Focusing on such architects as Boffrand, Gabriel, and Redoux, he shows how a study of their building decoration illuminates the evolution of 'style moderne,' the battle between Rococo and Neoclassicism, and the dissemination of French styles throughout Europe.

French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Author: Jean Bony
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1983
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780520055865

Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances—the result of a continuining quest for new ways of handling space and light as well as experimenting with the mechanics of stone construction. He shows how the new architecture came unexpectedly to be invented in the Paris region around 1140 and follows its history—in the great cathedrals of northern France and dozens of other key buildings—to the end of the thirteenth century, when profound changes occurred in the whole fabric of medieval civilization. Rich illustrations, including comprehensive maps, enhance the text and themselves constitute an exceptionally valuable documenation. Despite its evident scholarly intention, this book is not meant for specialists alone, but is conceived as a progressive infiltration into the complexities of history at work, revealing its unpredictable vitality to the uninitiated curious mind.

Salut!

Salut!
Author: Lynn Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2020-11-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781439917121

"Provides a thorough account of the impact on Philadelphia and its surrounding area of the French people and the Francophone community over the course of the city's more than 300-year history"--

Making Modern Paris

Making Modern Paris
Author: Christopher Curtis Mead
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780271050874

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.

At Home in Postwar France

At Home in Postwar France
Author: Nicole C. Rudolph
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1782385886

After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers — arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects’, planners’, and residents’ understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the “right to comfort” as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.

The Social Project

The Social Project
Author: Kenny Cupers
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1452941068

Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning History Honorable Mention: 2016 Wylie Prize in French Studies In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century’s greatest social and architectural experiments: transforming a mostly rural country into a modernized urban nation. Through the state-sanctioned construction of mass housing and development of towns on the outskirts of existing cities, a new world materialized where sixty years ago little more than cabbage and cottages existed. Known as the banlieue, the suburban landscapes that make up much of contemporary France are near-opposites of the historic cities they surround. Although these postwar environments of towers, slabs, and megastructures are often seen as a single utopian blueprint gone awry, Kenny Cupers demonstrates that their construction was instead driven by the intense aspirations and anxieties of a broad range of people. Narrating the complex interactions between architects, planners, policy makers, inhabitants, and social scientists, he shows how postwar dwelling was caught between the purview of the welfare state and the rise of mass consumerism. The Social Project unearths three decades of architectural and social experiments centered on the dwelling environment as it became an object of modernization, an everyday site of citizen participation, and a domain of social scientific expertise. Beyond state intervention, it was this new regime of knowledge production that made postwar modernism mainstream. The first comprehensive history of these wide-ranging urban projects, this book reveals how housing in postwar France shaped both contemporary urbanity and modern architecture.