New "Carte Paris Brutaliste/Brutalist Paris Map"
10/03/2017.
By Nigel Green and Robin Wilson. Blue Crow Media
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Paris is known as the City of Lights, but it also one of the great places Brutalist buildings. "Carte Paris Brutaliste/Brutalist Paris Map," is a new architectural guide book put together by photographer Nigel Green and edited by Robin Wilson of the Bartlett, marks the sixth in a series of publications touring various architectural genres in different cites.
Les Orgues de Flandre Les Damiers. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Communist Party Headquarters by Oscar Niemeyer. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Centre national d'études des télécommunications (CNET). Telecommunications UFO. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Les Choux de Créteil. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Brutalist Paris Map Cover.
Bourse by Travail. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Tour Tokyo / Tokyo Tower. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Caserne de Pompiers. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Les Etoiles at Ivry sur Seine. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
"Carte Paris Brutaliste/Brutalist Paris Map," marks the sixth in a series of publications touring various architectural genres in different cites.
Les Bleuets. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
UNESCO headquarters. Photograph by Nigel Green for Blue Crow Media © 2017
Publisher Blue Crow Media continues to celebrate Brutalist design with its new Paris, France edition.
Brutalist Paris Map by Blue Crow Media features the most striking examples of Brutalist architecture in Paris, this two-sided guide includes a map, an introduction by Robin Wilson, details of more than forty buildings, and photographs by Nigel Green.
"This map not only guides the reader to discover many of Paris’s boldest and exciting post-war buildings, it also provides a different way to experience Paris as a city, to explore areas not usually on the tourist itinerary and to encounter some genuinely radical urban environments"
Robin Wilson, co-founder of Photolanguage and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
The book will point you to monuments such as Les Choux de Creteil, Les Orgues de Flandre Les Damiers, and Bourse by Travail among a slew of others. Some of map’s more notable projects include Maison du Brésil, and the Communist Party Headquarters, designed by big names such as Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. The work of influential French architects Jean Renaudie, Renée Gailhoustet, and Gérard Grandval, among others, has also been featured, including ‘Les Choux de Créteil’, and ‘Les Damiers’ apartments.
The bilingual map is Blue Crow’s sixth guide dedicated to 20th century architecture, all of which can be purchased through the publisher’s website, here. The Brutalist Paris Map is priced at € 9.16 (£8 GBP) plus shipping, and provides architectural details and photos for each of the buildings featured.
The map has some interesting little-known spots, like Marius Depont’s concrete Church of Saint André and Pierre Vivien’s Telecommunications Building.
Post-war Brutalist architecture embodies the French term le béton brut, meaning ‘raw concrete’, while providing manifestations of various formal compositions, through experimentation with the economical, structural and material properties that concrete possesses. Despite being the focus of many a debate over the years, the style has been seen in a more favourable light as of late, and the map intends to further maintain this positive perception.
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