This book considers the post-68 French city as a prism through which to understand the contemporary world and France's specificity within it. The reader is invited to join in a series of exploratory strolls through texts, buildings, and neighborhoods, and thereby share in a process of discovery. Zeroing in on international architectural debates, a range of key Parisian exhibitions, and major urban design decisions in Paris, Montpellier, and Lille, Yaari unravels an often-acerbic French critique of both modern and postmodern positions on culture, technology, and the city. This...

Bucarest Paris, 1945-1947. Pendant cet intervalle trouble ou la dictature communiste ne s est pas encore imposee dans la capitale roumaine sur les decombres du fascisme, un groupe surrealiste singulier emerge de la clandestinite avec un enchainement febrile de publications et d expositions. Se pensant en dialogue avec Paris mais affirmant hautement sa difference, il arbore l - Infra-noir - comme signe d une identite codee.
Les publications collectives en langue francaise que realisent Gherasim Luca, Trost, Paul Paun, Virgil Teodorescu et Gellu Naum durant ces deux annees de relative...