Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliotheque Sainte-genevieve - Couverture rigide

Levine, Neil

 
9780300275339: Architecture for Reading in Public: Henri Labrouste's Bibliotheque Sainte-genevieve
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ISBN 10 : 0300275331 ISBN 13 : 9780300275339
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2025

Synopsis

An in-depth look at the iconic mid-nineteenth-century building and its construction during a period of revolution and its transformative impact on the history of architecture   Since its completion in 1850, the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève has been heralded as a major forerunner of modern architecture. The architect Henri Labrouste, a product of the École des Beaux-Arts, broke with the reigning neoclassical tradition by expressing on the exterior the building's internal functions and exposing on the interior the unprecedented iron construction of its reading room. Underlying these radical departures from tradition was a new democratic form of spatial organization appropriate to the new reading public.   Acclaimed architectural historian Neil Levine presents both a building history–discussing the significance of the program, site, prehistory, and building process–and a window into a period of momentous historical change by contextualizing Labrouste's work within the revolutionary times of the latter part of the July Monarchy and Second Republic in France. He examines how the building communicates a public purpose through its anticlassical, nonhierarchic, egalitarian form and reveals how the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève is the product of a poetic architectural intelligence mixed with radical, democratic ideals.

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À propos de l'auteur

Neil Levine is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300275331
ISBN 13 
9780300275339
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
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