The Eiffel Tower
$67.47
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2022
Summary
“The Tower is also present to the entire world… a universal symbol of Paris… from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn’t made, somehow, in the Tower’s name.”
- Roland Barthes
When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought iron tower on Paris’s Champ de Mars for the World’s Fair in 1889, he laid claim to the tallest structure in the world. Though the Chrysler Building would, 41 years later, scrape an even higher sky, the Eiffe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836584418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3836584417 |
| Author: | Bertrand Lemoine |
| Publisher: | Taschen GmbH |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 2.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 296mm x 420mm |
| Series: | Architecture |
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Critics Review
A superb homage to the architect and his creation. * Francetoday.com *
Bertrand Lemoine
Specialist in the history of architecture, construction, and cities in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bertrand Lemoine has curated numerous exhibitions and has widely published on the subjects of architecture and the history of iron and metal structures, including several books on the subject of Gustave Eiffel. Lemoine was director of the journal Architecture Acier Construction and Acier, revue d’architecture. He has been editor in chief of AMC-Le Moniteur Architecture and L’Acier pour Construire. He is the president of the Académie d’architecture.
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