Paris - 2000 years of architecture and urban history

Using Paris as an out-door class-room is an extraordinary experience! Beside specific information upon the Parisian architecture and urban factory I try to initiate students to observe their built environment: how and why did todays buildings and urban compositions turn out this way? Not only monuments, but also functional and ordinary structures are essential in the urban factor.

This page will hopefully evolve with time - in a first stage I suggest a brief bibliography (architecture & urbanism in general) and as an introduction to Paris architecture and urbanism a chronological list with a selection of web-links:

Bruno Zevi "Apprendre à voir l'architecture"
S.E. Rasmussen "Experiencing architecture"
Fredrik F. Wulz "Fasaden och stadsrummet".

Looking at Buildings Glossary
Glossary for Medieval Art & Architecture

Andrew Ayers, The Architecture of Paris,
D. Thompson, Renaissance Paris
A. Braham, "Architecture of the French Enlightenment

Cité de l'architecture
Musée des Plans et Reliefs

The making of Paris
Paris architecture
Paris maps
Paris "water"
Paris "métro"
Paris underground

Before Lutetia
Lutetia
Musée Cluny
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Denis, abbey & city
Notre-Dame
Sainte-Chapelle
Sainte Chapelle virtual visit
ïle de la Cité in the medieval times, virtual tour
Château Vincennes
Tour Jean sans Peur
Louvre
Le Marais
Le Val-de-Grâce
Hôtel des Invalides
Plan Bretez/Turgot
Saint-Sulpice
Versailles: Le Petit Trianon
Panthéon
Paris catacombs
Paris before & after Haussmann
A Modern Sewer system
Opéra Garnier
immeubles Haussmanniens
Hôtel de Ville
Gustave Eiffel
Construction of the Eiffel Tower
Architecture in Musée d'Orsay
Le grand Palais
Le Petit Palais
Le grand palais
World Fair 1900
Musée d'Orsay
Construction Métro
Hector Guimard
Villa La Roche
Villa Savoye
Robert Mallet Stevens
Construction of the CNIT at la Défense
La tour Montparnasse est belle!
Centre Pompidou
Social housings by Portzamparc
Francois Mitterrand & Paris
Grands Travaux François Mitterrand
Institut du Monde Arabe
The Battle of the Pyramid
Opéra Bastille
Pei about the Louvre Pyramid
Bercy prototypes
Paris ZAC Rive Gauche
Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
Tom Mayne - Morphosis tower
La Défense - projects
Project Tour Phare La Défense
La Défense - EPAD
La Gaïté Lyrique conception
Les halles - history
Les Halles before
La Canopée - Les Halles tomorrow
La Philarmonie de Paris
Triangle 2017 ?
Projet Triangle
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Le Front de Seine project
Front de Seine SEMARELP
le grand pari(s)
Tout savoir sur le grand Paris

A video by one of my wonderful students, dancing through Paris!

https://www.apolloinparis.com/film/apolloinparis