Electricity Architecture: Industrial Age Architecture

Electricity has transformed the way of life of our contemporaries. Since the end of the 19^th century, the production, transformation and distribution of electricity have given rise to original architecture. This book retraces the journey of creators who, for a century in France, expressed through their art the modernity of electrical energy. From 1900, Paul Friesé played a fundamental role in defining the program and aesthetics of the modern factory in France, notably through the construction of some twenty electrical substations in Paris. In 1928, Georges-Henri Pingusson created the Vitry-Sud thermal power station which constituted a manifesto of industrial aesthetics. In the 1930s, Pierre Barbe, architect for the Compagnie du Nord, was a defender of indirect lighting. The 1940s and 1950s were marked by the internationally renowned multi-arch dams created by engineer André Coyne. Finally, the 1970s saw the birth of the architecture of the atom, illustrated by Claude Parent's nuclear power plants.

• 23 x 28.5 cm
• 176 pages
• 170 black and white and color illustrations
• ISBN: 978-2-9092-8303-6
• Text in French only

• (dir.) Maurice Culot
• (préface) Marcel Boiteux
• auteurs : Bruno Foucart, Hugues Fibec, Martin Meade, Élisabeth Vitou, Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, Bernard Marrey, Claude Parent, Jean-Paul Midant