The Stones of Fernand Pouillon - An Alternative Modernism in French Architecture. - Couverture rigide

Caruso, Adam; Thomas, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3856763244 ISBN 13 : 9783856763244

Editeur : Gta Verlag, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fernand Pouillon (1912-86) was a modern architect, but he was not a modernist. For Pouillon magnificent old buildings and cities were part of the physical experience of the present. Their conventions and techniques were available to be deployed in new constructions that recall the epic qualities of the past at the same time as attend to matters of the everyday. This book, edited by Adam Caruso and Helen Thomas, is the first English publication dedicated to Pouillon. His contribution to twentieth-century architecture is explored through a rich set of perspectives, including texts by Pouillon himself, Jacques Lucan and Adam Caruso, and photographs by Hélène Binet.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Providing a new insight into twentieth-century architecture, this is the first book in English on the work of French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986). It includes Jacques Lucan's analysis of his post-war urbanism and its critique of mainstream modernism, a description of material construction by Adam Caruso, and Pouillon himself inspired by Aix-en-Provence and reflecting on the contemporary architect's position in a cultural continuum. At the book's heart lie survey drawings and photographs of Pouillon's key Parisian housing projects. This book is first in a series on 'The Limits of Modernism - a Forgotten Generation of European Architects'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gta Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3856763244
• ISBN 13: 9783856763244
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 192