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Architect's Guide to Paris (Butterworth Architecture Architect's Guides) by Renzo Salvadori; [translated by Brenda Balich] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Butterworth Architecture intend this series of Architect’s Guides to provide architects (and all those primarily interested in architecture) with a compact historical summary and description of over a hundred buildings in each city selected. The guides accordingly cover the fullest possible historical range, but unlike tourist guides describe buildings in full depth of architectural detail, as well as including a comprehensive section, in every case, on twentieth century architecture up to the present day. In addition every guide contains a description of a key design element characteristic of each city, not so much a buildings as a metaphor for that city. For Paris, a river city, the author found the bridges exemplary. In the late twentieth century urban planning and design has become a subject of key importance to all cities, and each city demonstrates its own historic solutions, as well as their related problems and the way in which these are being solved. A city is not only a collection of buildings: it has its own special environment, often more precious and fragile than the individual buildings which created it. The urban history of Paris is dealt with here in some detail in

Who reads Architect's Guide to Paris (Butterworth Architecture Architect's Guides)?

Author

Renzo Salvadori; [translated by Brenda Balich]

Publisher

Butterworth Architecture

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780408500685

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Art, Arts