1930s Architecture in Paris, French Book by Jean-Marc Labordiere, 2009

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L'Architecture des Années 30 a Paris (1930s Architecture in Paris), French book by Jean-Marc Larbodiere.
The International Style comes from … more L'Architecture des Années 30 a Paris (1930s Architecture in Paris), French book by Jean-Marc Larbodiere.
The International Style comes from the Modern Movement (Bauhaus in Germany, Le Corbusier, and the Esprit Nouveau in France), an extension of Art Nouveau. This book invites the Parisian walker and tourists to recognize the buildings built in Paris by the greatest architects of the 1930s.
After the excitement of the Roaring Twenties, France faced a major economic crisis and political and social uncertainty. Cultural life sees the emergence of mass culture. In architecture, modernism is spreading in society. In 1926, Le Corbusier set out the main points of a new architecture - the International Style. Rationalism and Functionalism are born on an invention that will change everything: reinforced concrete. The latter offers architects immense, hitherto unknown possibilities.
The urban landscape is changing: the windows widen, the roofs become terraces, the elevators appear, as well as the courtyards and the gardens, while the dark corridors disappear. "Free" decorations no longer have their place. Light and sobriety are now the hallmarks of a style whose beauty only imposes itself through the harmony of geometric shapes and the happy balance of solids and voids.
Discover through this work the great principles of modern architecture or International Style through its birth and principles. Find the precursors that are Henri Sauvage and Auguste Perret, the modern hardliners such as Le Corbusier, Mallet-Stevens, Pingusson, and Fisher, then the temperate moderns like Roux-Spitz, Ginsberg, Sirvin, and Madeline. Finally, dive into the heart of the three palaces built for important exhibitions: the Palais de Chaillot, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Palais des Colonies in Paris.
This is a beautiful coffee table art book.

Features:
Title: L'Architecture des Années 30 a Paris.
Author: Jean-Marc Larbodiere.
Softcover book.
Language: French.
With many color illustrations.
160 pages.
Dimensions: 8.25 in. x 10 in. (21 x 25.5 cm).
Published in 2009 by Editions Massin. less