les grands travaux 01.03.10

city form: planning

 
Paris has a long history of grand/grandiose visions for planning the city, including Haussmann, who established the grand avenues and characteristic height limits of the urban fabric, and the Expositions of the World’s Fairs, which were vehicles for the development of some of the cities great public spaces and monuments (the Eiffel Tower being the most iconographic). Les Grands Travaux was the vision of François Mitterrand in the 1980’s & 90’s, which included projects such as Parc de la Villette, L’Institute du Monde Arabe, La Grande Arche de la Défense, and the Louvre’s Pyramid.http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/architecture/Haussmanns-Architectural-Paris.htmlhttp://www.expomuseum.com/1900/http://hubpages.com/hub/Architecture-in-France-Under-Francois-Mitterrandparc_de_la_villette.htmlparc_de_la_villette.htmlhttp://www.galinsky.com/buildings/ima/http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/La_Grande_Arche.htmlhttp://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/La_Grande_Arche.htmlhttp://www.designboom.com/portrait/pei_louvre.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7shapeimage_4_link_8
Redeveloped as part of the World’s Fair of 1937, the Palais de Chaillot houses a museum of French architecture and the École de Chaillot, a postgraduate school for the preservation of architecture and cityscapes, as well as government architecture and urban planning.http://www.citechaillot.fr/formation/the_ecole_de_chaillot.phpshapeimage_6_link_0