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"Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and the structures and designs from this period that still remain, its colonial building program has never been considered on a hemispheric scale. Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings, photographic field surveys, and extensive archival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on the French state's and the Catholic Church's ideals and motivations for their urban and architectural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail, Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world that has been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires - from Cap-François (now Cap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces in the styles of Louis XV and formal gardens patterned after Versailles, to failed utopian cities like Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated with examples of grand buildings, churches, and gardens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this volume also brings to life the architects who built these structures, not only French military engineers and white civilian builders, but also the free people of colour and slaves who contributed so much to the tropical colonies. Taking readers on a historical tour through the striking landmarks of the French colonial landscape, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire presents a sweeping panorama of an entire hemisphere of architecture and its legacy."--
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Ce sont les historiens qui, les premiers, se sont intéressés à la question de la culture coloniale. Leurs travaux ont contribué à cerner la notion, et à l'apprivoiser. Les historiens de l'architecture, ensuite, ont porté leur intérêt sur des œuvres qui avaient été construites sous un régime réglementaire plus souple qu'en métropole, permettant ainsi aux architectes de faire de ces vastes territoires un champ d'expérimentation inespéré. La nécessité de bâtir dans un milieu qui leur était étranger, d'utiliser des matériaux nouveaux et de prendre en compte des contraintes climatiques particulières a stimulé l'imagination des architectes et des ingénieurs. C'est le cas de la maison tropicale de Prouvé et Herbé, destinée au Niger. Les solutions retenues outre-mer ont nourri, en retour, les projets des architectes français en métropole, au moment où le territoire connaissait, depuis le début des années 1960, un développement urbanistique sans précédent. Le débat qui s'est engagé entre les participants lors de la table ronde, organisée à Paris par l'Institut national du patrimoine du 17 au 19 septembre 2003, et le choix final du titre de la présente publication prouvent que le sujet est encore sensible plus de quarante années après le mouvement de décolonisation des anciens territoires français. (quatrième de couverture)
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