Architecture

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  Béatrice BOUVIER

  L'Edition d'Architecture à Paris au XIXe siècle

  Les maisons Bance et Morel et la presse architecturale

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  In 1851, the Parisian bookseller Balthazar Bance and the architect Victor Calliat co-founded the Encyclopédie d’architecture, a journal that would spread the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc until 1892. The history of the journal is first and foremost the...

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  Institutions, services publics et architecture XVIIIe-XXe siècle

  Actes des journées d'étude organisées au Sénat, Palais du Luxembourg, à Paris les 13 et 14 juin 2002

  Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) | Varia

  The authors of these texts (in French and German) specialize in the history of culture, art and institutions, and in sociology. From their variety of viewpoints, they all study the architecture of public institutions. How are these buildings...

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  Leon Battista ALBERTI

  Descriptio urbis Romae

  Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

  The Descriptio Urbis Romæ of Leon Battista Alberti is a short text apparently written in the middle of the XVth century. It describes the method that the author invented for drawing up the map of Rome. This is the first complete edition covering all...