When a building speaks for itself

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The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it’s to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it’s done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It’s an aesthetic of miracle. – Jean Nouvel
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    From the Lighthouse of the Whales (France) to the Lighthouse at the End of the World (Tierra del Fuego,Argentina), and passing by the Lighthouse of Green Island (Canada) and the Bell Rock Lighthouse (Scotland), this work invites the reader to rediscover the richness of these witnesses of other times.
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    Born in the Industrial Revolution, the factory has long been considered like a monster of iron, subjugating the individual to the collective in an act of mass dehumanisation. The surprising photographs featured in this work help us rediscover the volume, purity of line, beauty, and stunningly modern architecture of these steel-boned monuments.
    Parkstone Internationaladded a book to the bookshelfWhen a building speaks for itself7 years ago
    Between the shadow and the light, these original photographs reveal the fragile glow of the city, and help us rediscover the eternal pulse of these great capitals, simultaneously surprising and sublime.
    Parkstone Internationaladded a book to the bookshelfWhen a building speaks for itself7 years ago
    A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. With its magnificent photographs, this book invites the reader to rediscover these modernday sculptures.
    Parkstone Internationaladded a book to the bookshelfWhen a building speaks for itself7 years ago
    This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan -, a cradle of Ancient civilisations that are pository of the Oriental arts inspired by Buddhism and Islam.
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