Christian Hauvette
Subtitle: dwellings, monuments, machines : truth, metaphor, narrative
By: preface by Alice Laguarda and Paul Ardenne ; texts by Denis Pondruel ... [et al.] ; [translation from French into English, Elizabeth Schwaiger].
Contributors: Hauvette, Christian.; Pondruel, Denis.
Publisher: Birkhäuser; Birkhauser Verlag
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Hauvette, Christian -- Themes, motives; Architecture -- France -- 20th century
Description: "In this monograph architect Christian Hauvette divides his most recent eleven buildings into three categories: dwellings, monuments, and machines. In the first category, we are introduced to experimental housing for town-dwellers; in the second to monuments that celebrate work and its institutions; and in the third to efficient public facilities that are adapted to their environment.

Abundantly illustrated with plans and photographs, these categories are examined from the perspective of contemporary cultural production in three essays authored by sculptor Denis Pondruel, art historian Didier Laroque, and cinematographer Stan Neumann."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.