Making modern Paris
Subtitle: Victor Baltard's Central Markets and the urban practice of architecture
By: Christopher Curtis Mead
Contributors: Baltard, Victor, 1805-1874
Series: Buildings, landscapes, and societies -- 7
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780271050874
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Halles centrales (Paris, France); Criticism and interpretation; Architecture and society; City planning; History
Other titles: Victor Baltard's Central Markets and the urban practice of architecture
Description: "Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconsidering Victor Baltard; title: Classicism and the architect's education; title: Representing Paris; title: Decorated construction; title: An urban history of the Central Markets; title: Housing the city; title: Epilogue on function and typology in Baltard's urban architecture; title: Appendix. Career chronology of Victor Baltard.