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Architecture is Not Public Art

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
In this ‘Editor’s column’, I question whether architecture is what we have come to call Public Art. It seems nonsense to say that architecture is not an art, when it is obviously something that people make for audiences, i.e.
Rob van Gerwen
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Publicness as an architectural value

open access: yesJournal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2014
That architecture should in some way serve the public good is an idea that mostly goes unquestioned. The corresponding idea that we know who the public is and what its good consists of largely falls apart in the face of even a little probing.
Tom Spector
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Un établissement d’enseignement professionnel de style Art déco : le lycée Paul-Louis Cyfflé de Nancy

open access: yesIn Situ, 2021
Built in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle French department) between 1925 and 1934 by the architect Jean-Frédéric Wielhorski (1874-1942), the current lycée Paul-Louis Cyfflé originally housed an upper primary school for boys before it became, much later on, a ...
Martine Tronquart, Élise Nale
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L’Aventure olympique. Les architectures des Jeux d’hiver d’Albertville 1992 : des projets inaboutis ?

open access: yesLes Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2021
Olympic architectures, because of their complexity, constitute a privileged case study for project failures and unrealizations. At the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games, political, economic, and territorial issues took precedence over architectural matters.
Marie Beauvalet-Boutouyrie
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La villa Arson (1967-1970, arch. : Michel Marot)

open access: yesIn Situ, 2021
When inaugurated in 1972, the Villa Arson (Nice) embodied an institutional, educational and architectural alternative in the field of artistic education. Initiated locally, the project to build an art school on the heights of Nice had materialized thanks
Éléonore Marantz
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Les documents d’architectes : des archives essentielles pour l’étude des lycées

open access: yesIn Situ, 2021
Many architects, some of which well known, have taken part from the end of the 19th century in the design of “lycées” (France’s high schools) until the middle of the 20th century.
Franck Delorme
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The positive impact of wooden material on educational processes in the environment of Slovenian wooden kindergartens [PDF]

open access: yesArchitecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 2022
Several scientific studies confirm that the colors, structures or materials used in the physical environment of interiors affect the human psyche. Wood, as a material applied in the interior spaces of buildings, is an attractor that, in addition to its ...
Ing. arch. Jakub Hanták   +1 more
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Public intimacy. Architecture and the visual arts

open access: yesCuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, 2020
Public intimacy.
Javier de Esteban Garbayo
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Pro Scientia Urbe et Patria : l’architecture de la faculté de médecine et de pharmacie de Bordeaux, 1876-1888 et 1902-1922

open access: yesIn Situ, 2012
The building of the faculty of medicine and pharmacy was constructed from 1880 to 1888, following the plans of the architect Jean-Louis Pascal (1837-1920), after an architectural competition organised in 1876.
Claude Laroche
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L’architecture à la reconquête de sa dimension symbolique ? Architectures et lieux de pouvoir à l’heure de la décentralisation à Marseille (1984-1994)

open access: yesIn Situ, 2018
This article considers the relationships between architecture and places of power as they were redefined in Marseille, as a result of decentralisation policies between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s.
Éléonore Marantz
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