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Architectures 4 = Architekturen 4 /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: DV88500 | Facets MultimediaLanguage: French, English, German Original language: French Publication details: [Paris] : Arte Video ; [Chicago, Ill.] : Facets Video, [2005]Description: 1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1565804880
9781565804883

Other title:

Architekturen 4
Architectures four
Architekturen vier

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

724/.6 22
720.94 22

LOC classification:

NA958 .A737 2005

Contents:

La Saline d'Arc et Senans = Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans / un film de Richard Copans et Stan Neumann -- La Maison de Verre / un film de Richard Copans et Stan Neumann -- Le Musee Guggenheim de Bilbao = The Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao / un film de Julien Donada -- La Maison de Jean Prouve = Jean Prouvé's House / un film de Stan Neumann -- La Mediatheque de Sendaï = Multimedia Library of Sendai / un film de Richard Copans -- L'Abbatiale Sainte Foy de Conques = The Abbey Church of Sainte Foy at Conques / un film de Stan Neumann.

Production credits:

"A Collection [of 5 discs] created by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann"--Container.

Narrator, François Marthouret.Summary: Examines the Royal Saltworks of Arc and Senans, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Jean Prouve's House, the St. Foy Abbey, and the Sendai Mediatheque.Summary: Provides an inside look at the work of celebrated architects and some of their most brilliant creations. Examines the saltworks of Arc-and-Senans built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in the late 18th century and the influence of this monumental factory on other architects. Looks at the Maison de Verre or the house of glass, designed by Pierre Chareau and completed in 1932, as an example of playful avant-garde architecture that was built around the top floor of an existing Paris building that the tenant refused to vacate. Discusses how the deconstructivist Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry and opened to the public in 1997, was incorporated into its environment in a dying industrial city. Describes how the self-educated engineer and architect Jean Prouvé, known for his metal furniture, built a house for his own family in 1954 after the failure of his attempts to sell prefabricated, steel and aluminum houses to the French public. Examines the transparent cube of a multimedia library built in 2001 in northern Japan by architect Toyo Ito and its use of open and barrier-free space. Looks at the construction of the historic Abbey Church of Saint Foy as a prototype of a "pilgrim church" in the new style of the 11th century, now known as Romanesque.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 1394 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050125546

Originally broadcast as episodes of the French television program Architectures by Arte France in 2004. Each episode is ca. 26 min.

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