In the run-up to the festive season, discover our team’s selection of books on 20th and 21st century architecture!
With the support of our agency partners, the bookstore Volume in Paris, the Rupture & Imbernon bookshop in Marseille and the Moniteur publishing house.
Delphine Aboulker
Maisons rêvées : 40 maisons d’architecte made in France
Alternatives (Gallimard)
240 pages – €35
Dedicated to architects’ houses in France, Maisons rêvées presents a richly illustrated panorama of French domestic architecture, featuring 40 houses built between 2000 and 2020. It summarises the major developments, the major players and the flagship projects through a selection of houses divided into five themes : ecological houses, town houses, the quest for aesthetics, reinvented tradition and industrial inspiration.
Bruno Marchand
Not at home? From the domestic sphere to the outside world
EPFL Press
144 pages – €24.5
Walter Benjamin felt that, from the 19th century onwards, the flat had become a “case for man”. It was a bulwark, a protection against the interference of the outside world. But the history of housing has been shaped by many different influences, not least the theories of Frederick W. Taylor and the “meeting of mechanics and mechanics”. Taylor and the “meeting of mechanisation and the home” (Sigfried Giedion).
Manuel Herz
African Modernism, the architecture of independence
Park Books
640 pages – 85 €
The big surprise at the end of the year is the reprinting of Manuel HERZ’s book AFRICAN MODERNISM to mark the 10th anniversary of Park Books. The book presents modern architecture in five sub-Saharan African countries, with generous iconography. Diplomatically freed from the colonial yoke, these countries – Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Zambia – used architecture, among other tools, to build their national identity…
Vincent Bertaud du Chazaud & Manuel Bougot
Le Corbusier / Cinq unités d’habitation
Editions du Moniteur
176 pages – €45
Le Corbusier’s five housing units brought together in one book for the first time! Architectural and urban planning photographer Manuel Bougot and architect and historian Vincent Bertaud du Chazaud have signed their third book, highlighting the famous Cités Radieuses built by Le Corbusier in France and Germany.
Vincent Bertaud du Chazaud & Manuel Bougot
Art Nouveau / Cinq villas et hôtels particuliers
Editions du Moniteur
176 pages – €45
An unprecedented panorama of Art Nouveau through five emblematic buildings in Brussels and Nancy. Art Nouveau emerged at the end of the 19th century as a “total art” that brought together all disciplines, drawing on both traditional skills and new techniques…
Vincent Bertaud du Chazaud & Manuel Bougot
Jean Prouvé / Cinq maisons sur mesure
Editions du Moniteur
176 pages – €45
While Jean Prouvé is now mainly celebrated for his social and industrial approach to housing, this book explores a lesser-known part of his work: made-to-measure houses. Through an exceptional corpus of photographs by Manuel Bougot, as well as period shots and archive documents, this book highlights five twentieth-century masterpieces that are landmarks in the career of their creator and, more generally, in the history of modern housing.
Sebastien Cherruet, Jacques Barsac
Le Monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand
Gallimard
396 pages – €49
“There’s a whole new world out there that interests us to the highest degree, because at last the Architectural Profession is working for man.” (Charlotte Perriand, letter to Pierre Jeanneret, 1936). What is this “new world” imagined by architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? Published to coincide with the major retrospective devoted by the Fondation Louis Vuitton to Charlotte Perriand and her links with the artists and architects of her time, this book offers a new reading of a body of work marked by commitment and freedom…
Alexandre Mare & Stéphane Boudin-Lestienne
Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles. Mécènes du XXe siècle
Couleurs contemporaines
335 pages – 55 €
The Villa Noailles is emblematic of modernity, or rather of the modernities that profoundly marked the decades following the First World War. Built by Robert Mallet-Stevens and furnished by Pierre Chareau, Sonia Delaunay, Djo Bourgeois and Jean-Michel Franck, this ‘cubist château’ welcomed Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc, Luis Bunuel, André Breton and others.
Philip Jodidio
Ando – Complete Works
Taschen
600 pages – €100
This book, conceived at the peak of Ando’s career and updated for this 2010 edition, presents all the architect’s achievements to date. Tadao Ando is the only architect to have been awarded the four most prestigious prizes in architecture: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale and Kyoto prizes.
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