Titel:
MONACOPOLIS, Architecture, Urban planing, and Urbanization in Monaco, Projects and Constructions 1858-2012
Bemerkung:
Produced after the exhibition shown in 2013 at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, The book MONACOPOLIS, Architecture, Urban Planning and Urbanisation in Monaco, Projects and Constructions, 1858-2012 is both an art book and a reference for the history of the Principality’s architecture and city planning.It took the NMNM team and a specially formed network of specialists two years to bring together the paintings, drawings, maquettes, photographs, sculptures and films—documents located in the different resource of public and private centres in Monaco (Archives du Palais, Société des Bains de Mer, Monaco Media centre, Audiovisual Archives, promoters, architects and collectors) and in Paris (National Museum of Modern Art, National Archives, Cité de l’Architecture) and in architects’ collections in France and abroad—and process the archives. Made up of outstanding illustrative material of more than 800 images, this book, in an inventive and refined layout, mingles past, real and virtual, and periods which overlap, to recreate the portrait of a country with such a special history.Thirteen authors (including Jean-Lucien Bonillo, Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre, Andrea Folli, Thomas Fouilleron, Frédéric Kappler, Gisella Merello, Simon Texier, Bernard Toulier, Georges Vigarello,…) have kindly undertaken the task of shedding some initial light on this novel documentary corpus. They help us to understand how the City-State has developed, its choices, the urban intentions, and the works produced… all so many thoughts which plunge us into a decidedly contemporary reflection. Text: engl.