Urban Architecture
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Photography – especially street photography- is a great tool for documenting a period, a time, an era. It captures history. It captures people, streets, landscapes. It is a tangible witness of time. Last June, I visited a retrospective exhibition on Robert Doisneau named Robert Doisneau. Instants donnés at the musée Maillol in Paris. Not only…
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Dear Chicago, “I don’t know where to start this love letter to you.” This is the only way I could start a post about this beautiful city – Chicago. Versatile, magnetic, strong. Chicago has multiple facets (like any other city you might tell me) but Chicago is special, unique. Its history, its culture and its…
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Paris, city of lights, city of love… City of dreams. The architecture of this beautiful city is strongly suffused with its past and its culture. Revolutions, romantism, arts, literature… Paris is full of monuments and museums that structure its overall architecture, not forgetting its famous Haussmann-style buildings and its symbolic places such as the…
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It is really interesting to observe how a city is shaped, the buildings that compose it, the streets, the colors, the noise, the general atmosphere… Each city is unique and a part of its history – and story – resides in its architecture. New York City Urban Architecture Let me start my first…