The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1988 as part of Francois Mitterand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buidings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions. |
Contents
Eiffel and Pompidou Again | 43 |
The Institutions of Jean Nouvel | 95 |
Details between the Grande | 151 |
Perraults Bibliothèque Nationale | 225 |
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The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998 Annette Fierro No preview available - 2003 |
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Adrien Fainsilber Archigram architects architecture Beaubourg Bibliothèque Nationale boulevards Bruno Taut building building's cathedral CHAPTER I PARIS Cité de Refuge Cité des Sciences competition concept construction contemporary Corbusier's crystalline CULTURAL PROJECTIONS curtain wall Dominique Perrault Eiffel Tower elements enormous entry expression exterior façade flank floor Fondation Cartier France François François Mitterrand French garden geometry Giedion Grands Projets Haussmann's I. M. Pei Institut du Monde interior space Jean Jean Nouvel Le Corbusier literal Maison de Verre material metaphor mirror Mitterrand modern modernist Monde Arabe monumental mullion museum NEUTRAL ENCLOSURES Nouvel panes Parc André Citroën Parisian particularly Pei's Petite Pyramide physical Piano and Rogers plane plaza plinth political Pompidou Center POPULIST FRAMES primary Pyramide du Louvre reflection renovation RFR's scale Scheerbart serres Situationists social spatial SYMBOLIC STRUCTURES technological tectonic tion trans translucent transparency trusses urban Vidler Villette vision visitors