ARCHITRIP: À LA DÉCOUVERTE DE PARIS CONTEMPORAIN

Though urban planners of the first half of the 19th century were already drawing up plans to break through the dense, epidemic-prone city so as to give it light and air and flowing traffic, it was the enormous urban upheaval orchestrated by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann that came to define Paris, with its wide animated boulevards and avenues, its public parks and gardens, and its absorption of the surrounding villages of Belleville, Grenelle, Bercy, Montmartre, and others. But Haussmann no longer defines Paris.

“To say that we’re in Haussmann’s city is an absurdity,” says Christine Hoarau-Beauval, cofounder of ArchiTrip, a Paris-based company offerings tours of 20th and 21st century architecture and urbanism. “It’s untrue to say that we’re frozen in a uniform city that hasn’t since evolved and can’t continue to evolve.”

Cet article paraît dans le numero de novembre de The Connexion, “France’s English-language newpaper”, disponible en kiosque ou par abonnement en ligne: .

Photo: Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris Val de Seine - Paris Rive Gauche. Crédit: Gary Lee Kraut

Souces AJP: 09/11/2015