Tomorrow opens a new exhibition on the great twentieth-century architect, Marcel Breuer, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
After presenting Henri Labrouste, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine skips forward a century and presents another great architect who may not be among the best known to the general public, but who is revered within the profession.
Continue reading Marcel Breuer at the Cité de l’Architecture
The Seine has risen to surprising levels this year. My friend Laurent Deburge has taken a series of wonderful pictures capturing this special moment.
Continue reading The Seine Also Rises – Pictures by Laurent Deburge
This week Publishers Weekly publishes an interview with me in advance of the release of Paris Reborn on April 2.
The pieces discusses Paris and its history, Napoleon III, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, and some of the surprising aspects of the Second Empire rebuilding of the French capital recounted in Paris Reborn.
The Death and Life of Great French Cities: PW Talks with Stephane Kirkland is available on line, but the full piece is only accessible to Publishers Weekly subscribers.
