Le Corbusier: L'Unité d'habitation de Marseille (Monographies d'architecture) (French Edition)

Reference

Sbriglio, Jacques

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Editions Parenthèses

When driving in San Francisco, one alternarely guns the engine up a hill or burns brakes on the way down before finally coming up against a wall that terminates the street. There the vehicle must be left behind and the journey continued on foot. Only the use of stairs allows one to negotiate the incline that separates two parts of the street. The entire length of this route offers a succession of visual experiences: a view of the street mounting toward the sky framed by appartment towers; a breathtaking panorama of the city in its setting; a breakneck descend between clapboard houses, another skyward climb framed by attractively trimmed houses; a close-up of exuberant gardens at the end of private driveways; and finally a fantastic view of the bay and the Oakland bay bridge. From each hilltop one can see how the bay outlines the boundaries of the area. Each hillside holds a mirror to the other so that the city can constantly admire itself. In a grandious landscape where bridges and highways unite sea and land and where every hill forms a neighborhood, Nature and Architecture blend to compose a city that is alternately triumphant, modest and familiar. Like most American cities, San Francisco develped along an orthogonal matrix or grid. The topography of the side on which the city was built, however, was extremely rugged, with no-less than forty-two hills. The traditional urban grid used on flat land in this case met with a rebellious and as-yet untames environment. The result is an unusual phenomena: the streets are straight but rise and fall like roller-coasters. The settler's tool for urbanization and the relief of the land engaged in a battle that defied an obvious rationale. Why didn't the city adapt to its setting as common sense would dictate?

San Francisco, la grille sur les collines / the grid meets the hill (English and French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Florence Lipsky

Architecture

Le beton, histoire d'un materiau (French Edition)

Cyrille Simonnet

Du rond-point au giratoire (French Edition)

Eric Alonzo

Metamorphoses de l'ordinaire, Paola Vigano (French Edition)

Masboungi Ariella

Souto de Moura : Au Thoronet, le Diable m'a dit ... (French Edition)

Dominique Machabert

There is more to understanding a city than meets the eye, especially when one considers the complexity of a sprawling metropolis built upon layer after successive layer of history. This book looks closely at the traces left over time, how a city accumulates, how one strata is superimposed on top of another, how one historical layer interrupts another, how the metropolis resurges, reinvents itself, rises, divides and grows. The rapid pace of urbanization in modern times leaves its own particular trace on land by the sheer volume of construction, the different modes of execution and the evolution of new technical building methods. This book benefits from a historical approach. It draws from geography, cartography, architectural analysis, drawings and sketches, and finally, observation of our changing lifestyles and evolving urban needs.
La connaissance et la compréhension d une ville ne forcent pas l évidence, notamment pour les métropoles étendues marquées de strates historiques successives. Une première phase d observation permet d identifier les différences : tracés qui s additionnent, se superposent, s interrompent et ressurgissent, bâti qui se renouvelle et s étend au gré d une lente densification par excroissance, surélévation, découpage et comblement. L urbanisation accélérée de la période contemporaine marque encore plus radicalement le paysage par le volume des constructions, le mode d implantation et les techniques utilisées. Pour aller plus loin, il convient d élaborer une connaissance d investigation en mêlant l approche historique, la géographie, le travail cartographique, l analyse architecturale, l observation constructive et celle des modes de vie. En affirmant l importance du dessin comme un moyen de comprendre et de rendre sensible.

Analyse urbaine (Collection Eupalinos) (French Edition)

Philippe Panerai

Jean-Charles Depaules

Marcelle Demorgon

La Défense a Dictionary

Pierre Chabard

Virginie Picon-Lefebvre

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