[Library ebook] The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris, 1981--1998 (MIT Press)
❀ Annette Fierro ❀
| #2903120 in Books | 2006-09-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.75 x7.00l,1.36 | File Name: 0262562219 | 338 pages
||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Spot On! Worthy of notice.|By Alfred Bulltop Stormalong|Fierro's detailed exploration of the Grand Projets is spot-on, well-told and (for the most part) absent of the architectural demagoguery that so often occurs in books that explore architecture at a level beyond mere form. On occasion the author strays, or interprets differently than other scholars might, but overall her|||Annette Fierro's The Glass State makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Mitterrand's Grands Projets, their place in a long history of monumental architecture in Paris, and their role in the cultural politics of that city, both enact
From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. 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 1998 as part of Francois Mitterrand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of ...
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