Making Modern Paris: Victor Baltard's Central Markets and the Urban Practice of Architecture Tapa dura - 2012

Penn State University Press, 2012. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight and bright condition in a like dust jacket.. Size: 9.25x10.25 inches, 324pp., illus.

Penn State Press, 2012-10-11. Hardcover. Good.

Penn State University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. 10x9x1. Book is NEW and UNREAD but has a bumped bottom board. Still Sealed in Publishers Shrinkwrap.

Penn State Press, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 324 pages. The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1854 and 1874 in the historic heart of the city. Making Modern Paris is the only comprehensive study to address systematically not only the role Baltard played in the markets’ design and construction but also how the markets relate to the rest of Baltard’s work and professional practice. Christopher Curtis Mead interprets the Central Markets as a cogent expression of Baltard’s professional experience as he adjusted his academic training to new criteria of municipal administration, urban planning, and building technology. Considering his entire career over the three decades he worked for the Prefecture of the Seine, this investigation of how architectural and urban practice came together in Baltard’s work offers a case study of the historical process that produced… Leer más

Buildings, landscapes, and societies, 7. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 10.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. xxii/300 pages.Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870. This work was awarded the 2015 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award.

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2012. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 10.00x9.25x1.25 inches.