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EDF: Électricité de France
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso
79 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2019
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May 29, 2021
To minimise the impact their power distribution stations had on the landscape, France's national energy provider EDF engaged in a form of architectural camoflage by building them in the style of regional architecture. Here, in a novel photographic study, Tabuchi brings together a selection of these neglected masterpieces of vernacular architecture in an effort to construct a typology. In each case a representative example of a building in the regional style - usually a house - is presented on the verso with the power distribution station on the recto, allowing for easy comparison.
This is the first book in Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's L'Atlas des Régions Naturelles, a project documenting France's built environment with a special focus on the kind of buildings which typically escape the gaze of those who control narratives about architectural heritage. With 12,000 images of a planned 25,000 already available in the archive, this is hopefully the first of many publications in the series.
This is the first book in Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's L'Atlas des Régions Naturelles, a project documenting France's built environment with a special focus on the kind of buildings which typically escape the gaze of those who control narratives about architectural heritage. With 12,000 images of a planned 25,000 already available in the archive, this is hopefully the first of many publications in the series.
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