Dominique Perrault

Name: Dominique Perrault
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ISBN: 9782879392653

ISBN-10: 2879392659

ISBN-13: 9782879392653

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gilles De Bure

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By the time he was 40, architect Dominique Perrault had already designed France's important new national library, the last of the 'great projects' undertaken by president Francois Mitterrand. Since then he counts the velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin, the Aplix factory near Nantes and the Marinsky II in Saint Petersburg among his many projects. Paradoxically, although a prolific international designer and builder, he advocates for the 'disappearance of architecture'! Committed to 'concepts' and architecture as manifesto, Perrault excels in games of masks. For him, appearance, disappearance, derealization, dematerialization, crossings and lightening speed make up architecture's…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Vilo Intl
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 303
Size: 8.75" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: French

Vite speed: Eloge de la fulgurance / In praise of lightening speed	p. 8
Strategie strategy: L'art et la maniere / Art and style	p. 36
Manifeste manifesto: Le velodrome et la piscine olympique de Berlin / The velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin	p. 60
Rien nothing: Geometrie dans l'espace / Geometry in space	p. 80
Vibration vibration: La maille metallique / Metallic mesh	p. 108
Capture capture: Nature/culture / Nature/culture	p. 130
Fusion fusion: Ombres et lumieres / Light and shadow	p. 156
Tension tension: La loi des corps / The law of bodies	p. 182
Scansion scansion: L'usine Aplix / The Aplix factory	p. 208
Loin far: Go east, young man / Go east, young man	p. 228
Variation variation: Sur deux themes / On two themes	p. 260
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