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Chapter 1 The discovery of beton brut with malfacons: the worksite of the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille |
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Artificial ground and vision of the landscape |
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3 | (15) |
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Patterns of formwork and aggregate size of concrete mixture |
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18 | (18) |
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The sculptures moulees of the Modulor |
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36 | (9) |
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Vibrated concrete cladding panels |
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45 | (3) |
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Matroil polychromy on concrete |
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48 | (6) |
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The invention of the beton brut aesthetic |
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54 | (9) |
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Chapter 2 Acrobat training: the provocateur of new forms |
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Synthesis of plastics arts and ineffable space |
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63 | (4) |
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Plastics acoustics: sculptures with Savina |
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67 | (22) |
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Sand-casting with Nivola and glass sculptures for Murano |
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89 | (5) |
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Mural painting, muralnomad, enameled metal panels |
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94 | (11) |
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Landscapes in the heart of Saint-Die and New York |
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105 | (3) |
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Color-code polychromy in the Claude et Duval factory |
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108 | (6) |
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Polychromy in the restoration of the pan de verre of the Cite de Refuge |
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114 | (2) |
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New World of Space and photography, analysis of the artistic form |
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116 | (5) |
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The project for a laboratory of the synthesis of the major arts |
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121 | (5) |
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The Chapel at Ronchamp: shaping space by embossing |
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126 | (6) |
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Construction of the surfaces gauches |
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132 | (12) |
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Photographing ineffable space |
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144 | (5) |
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Chapter 3 Unites d'Habitation at Reze-Ies-Nantes, Berlin and Briey-en-Foret |
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The Unite d'Habitation at Reze-les-Nantes, or molecular unit |
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149 | (7) |
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The Beru walls, or concrete shuttering |
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156 | (2) |
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Design of the formwork and sculptures moulees |
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158 | (12) |
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Claustra and cladding panels |
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170 | (5) |
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175 | (4) |
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Restoration of wall sectors with cladding panels |
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179 | (1) |
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Unite d'Habitation at Berlin: the brise-soleil aesthetic |
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180 | (3) |
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Smooth cladding panels: beauty by contrast in crisis |
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183 | (1) |
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Formwork in fiber sheets and sculptures moulees with inscriptions |
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184 | (7) |
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Unite d'Habitation at Briey-en-Foret: technical evolutions of the formwork for the beton brut |
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191 | (6) |
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Chapter 4 Chandigarh, or the cosmic vision |
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197 | (12) |
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Screens for vision and optical illusions: artificial hills, rows of trees, reflecting pools |
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209 | (8) |
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The Climate Grid, principles of a biological order |
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217 | (9) |
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Bio-aesthetic and Arborisation Grid |
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226 | (4) |
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The High Court, monument of refrigerating voids |
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230 | (9) |
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Beton brut with formwork of wood and metal, and the cement gun |
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239 | (9) |
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Brut stones and Latex polychromy |
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248 | (8) |
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Tapestries: murals for acoustics |
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256 | (4) |
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The Secretariat, administrative machine |
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260 | (6) |
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Texture, metaphor of functionaries and ministers |
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266 | (4) |
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Defects in the metal formwork |
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270 | (7) |
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The Parliament, the hymn of mankind |
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277 | (12) |
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From the acoustic texture of beton brut to celestial atmospheres |
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289 | (8) |
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297 | (1) |
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Deformations of the metal formwork |
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298 | (6) |
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The Parliament door and the Open Hand |
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304 | (9) |
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The silhouette of the Governor's Palace |
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313 | (5) |
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318 | (22) |
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340 | (5) |
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Chapter 5 Brutal skin In pise, brick and wood |
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Pise, concrete with rubble, exposed brick |
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345 | (9) |
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Project for the village of humble houses in Chandigarh |
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354 | (7) |
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The Sarabhai house at Ahmedabad: reinforced concrete beams for free walls |
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361 | (7) |
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The Jaoul houses at Neuilly-sur-Seine: reinforced concrete beams for free windows |
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368 | (5) |
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Controlled constructive automatisms: bricks with crude joints and beton brut |
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373 | (6) |
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Musees a Croissance Illimite at Ahmedabad and Chandigarh |
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379 | (10) |
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Corollary of the sculptures moulees |
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389 | (1) |
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390 | (7) |
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Chapter 6 Machines a hablter for tropical visions and climates |
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Villa Curutchet, or the landscapes' spectacle |
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397 | (4) |
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Villa Shodhan: erosion of the Purist volume at Garches |
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401 | (6) |
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Formwork with horizontal layers |
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407 | (5) |
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The Millowners' Association building: perspective grids for vision and textile metaphors |
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412 | (5) |
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Indian perfection of beton brut |
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417 | (5) |
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Visual atmosphere and dignity of the stones of floors and walls |
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422 | (7) |
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Chapter 7 Automatisms and projections of sounds and images |
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Miracles box for spontaneous theater |
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429 | (3) |
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Kinetic illusionism, in the manner of Vasarely |
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432 | (8) |
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Automatic drawings: in the wake of Breton |
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440 | (6) |
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Transfer of works and photographic enlargements |
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446 | (10) |
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The second Salubra wallpaper collection: Op and Pop patterns |
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456 | (3) |
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"Jeux electroniques" on the roof of the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille |
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459 | (5) |
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The Philips Pavilion, or the space of Concrete Music and artistic projections |
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464 | (5) |
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Construction of the ruled surfaces |
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469 | (6) |
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The Poeme electronique: art in the electronic age |
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475 | (4) |
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Electronic Laboratory of Scientific Decision and Round-Books |
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479 | (4) |
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Project for the Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti at Rho |
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483 | (4) |
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Restoration and transformation of Villa Savoye |
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487 | (4) |
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Chapter 8 Toward a new stereotomy |
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From texturique to opus moderne, to opus optimum: the truth of materials |
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491 | (4) |
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The Monastery of La Tourette, forms of transfer |
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495 | (8) |
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503 | (6) |
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Construction of the box for religious functions |
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509 | (7) |
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Walls in shuttered concrete with cement gun cladding |
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516 | (5) |
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521 | (2) |
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The Brazilian Pavilion in Paris: souvenirs of landscapes and research on smooth concrete |
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523 | (4) |
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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts: the hands and the head |
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527 | (5) |
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Beton brut without artistics veins |
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532 | (12) |
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Smooth beton brut: the National Museum of Western Art of Tokyo |
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544 | (3) |
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The hall and the photographic fresco |
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547 | (3) |
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Stereotomy and hardness of beton brut |
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550 | (3) |
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Opus Modulor of the beton brut: the Unite d'Habitation at Firminy |
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553 | (7) |
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Transfer of sections: the Church of Saint-Pierre and the Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture |
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560 | (3) |
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Neat beton brut with sculpture in positive and negative |
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563 | (7) |
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570 | (5) |
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Build without building: the Hospital of Venice |
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575 | (5) |
| Name Index |
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580 | (6) |
| Figure Credits |
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