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In search of elegance : towards an architecture of satisfaction / Michel Lincourt ; illustrations by Louise Beaupre-Lincourt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lincourt, Michel, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palais-Royal (Paris, France).
- Architecture--Aesthetics.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Quebec (Province)--Outremont.
- Working class--Dwellings--France--Paris.
- Working class.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations, plans.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is architecture? How is it made? How is it judged? These fundamental questions have intrigued architects for centuries. While the questions are philosophical, the answers have important ramifications for architectural practice. In Search of Elegance provides answers to these complex questions and, in so doing, develops a new theory for the practice of architecture and urban design.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction a Theory For The Practice of Architecture
- A Theory Based on Phenomenology
- Unveiling Architecture
- Values and Design Criteria
- Palais-Royal: A Perennial Elegance
- Fondation Rothschild Workers’ Residence: An Honest Elegance
- Outremont: A Convivial Elegance
- Reveiling Architecture
- Archetypes of Elegance
- Conclusion Elegance for an Architecture of Satisfaction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-397) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85518-2
- 9786612855184
- 0-7735-6733-X
- OCLC:
- 1148080913
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