Architecture Book DescriptionPublication Date: October 11, 2012
The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1854 and 1874 in the historic heart of the city. Making Modern Paris is the only comprehensive study to address systematically not only the role Baltard played in the markets’ design and construction, but also how the markets relate to the rest of Baltard’s work and professional practice. Mead interprets the Central Markets as a cogent expression of Victor Baltard’s professional experience as he adjusted his academic training to new criteria of municipal administration, urban planning, and building technology. Considering his entire career over the three decades he worked for the Prefecture of the Seine, this investigation of how architectural and urban practice came together in Baltard’s work offers a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book promises to make an important contribution to the literature
on nineteenth-century French architecture. --Kevin Murphy, CUNY
Graduate Center
About the Author
Christopher Curtis Mead is Regents’ Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penn State Press (October 11, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 027105087X
- ISBN-13: 978-0271050874
