Sue Barr The Architecture of Transit - Couverture souple

Sue Barr

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 396070027X ISBN 13 : 9783960700272

Editeur : Hartmann Books, 2019

Synopsis

Depuis longtemps la photographe Sue Barr (responsable de la photographie à l'Architectural Association de Londres) est passionnée par l'architecture en béton et l'architecture brutale. Après des itinéraires historiques du XVIIIe siècle allant des Alpes suisses à Naples, elle a enfin décidé de photographier ces mégastructures architecturales extraordinaires et souvent ignorées. Les images de sa première publication monographique documentent la beauté inquiétante de l'architecture des autoroutes, au sein de paysages et d'espaces urbains, au moyen de photographies soigneusement construites.

A propos du livre

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Searching for the Sublime in Motorway Architecture Between the Alps and Naples.
Motorways are architectural megastructures in the landscape, crossing nations, natural or political borders, and making previously remote places accessible to development. Between the Alps and Naples motorways connect highly complex topographies and urban conditions, often retracing antique trade paths and routes taken by northern Romantics on the Grand Tour, searching for arcadian and sublime landscapes as painted by de Loutherbourg, Claude, and Turner. The experience of the sublime in untamed nature became a highlight on the Grand Tour. In those days the journey took days; today we speed through the landscapes via motorways over concrete bridges, ramps, through galleries and tunnels. But with this speed comes a new accelerated and simultaneously calm sublime of concrete motorway megastructures against the backdrop of constantly changing landscapes and cities. Sue Barr, Head of Pho-tography at the Architectural Association (AA), London, is a photographer obsessed with con-crete and Brutalist architecture. On countless journeys from the Alps to Naples she took the carefully constructed pictures for her first monographic publication and documented the omnious beauty of motorway architecture, within landscapes and urban spaces.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hartmann Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 396070027X
• ISBN 13: 9783960700272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible