Degas sculpteur raconté par lui-même

The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand years old; today's challenge is to integrate this heritage into contemporary life in a sustainable way. From the first. architecture has always aimed to adapt to the way of life of the society it serves, but few buildings have come down to us intact and as they were originally designed. Since the second half of the 19th century the speeding-up of history has increased the rhythm of change and has led to continual restructuring, extension and conversion. These changes have brought about the use of more and more innovative techniques, based on flexibility and reversibility, but the weight of materials, the time needed to implement these programmes, financial constraints and cultural compartmentalisation have deferred many of these projects and left us with a museum heritage frozen in time and quite unrelated to the original purpose of the buildings. What can be done with buildings looking for new use - a fortress without an army, a château without a lord. a workshop without an artisan, a factory without workers, or even an abbey without monks or a church without a congregation? The rise of a new national or international style or the creation of innovative techniques does not necessarily damage the integrity of a place. Modern techniques and materials, such as glass and steel, have a transparency, lightness, flexibility and reversibility that make them highly suitable for integrative undertakings. The examples presented in this book ail demonstrate a desire to be considered as "local" projects and to take their place in an evolutionary interpretation of history. Alter more than a century of conflicting debate on the subject of rehabilitation, it seems that the aims expressed in the Charter of Venice have borne fruit by giving rise to quality and personalised buildings that themselves are a contribution to this debate.

Architecte symbole de l'Art nouveau en France, Hector Guimard parcourt la révolution architecturale autour de 1900. Héritier du rationalisme de Viollet-le-Duc, il se passionne aussi pour les innovations techniques du XXe siècle. Célèbre pour ses entrées du Métropolitain, l'"architecte d'art", comme il se définit lui-même, a également imaginé le cadre de vie de la bourgeoisie : immeubles, villas, mobilier, décor... jusqu'au moindre détail. Philippe Thiébaut fait revivre l'homme au travers de son oeuvre, de sa clientèle, et de sa difficile postérité.

Quelles représentations avons-nous de notre parcours professionnel et de notre avenir professionnel ? Le contexte actuel amène tout salarié à changer d'emploi plusieurs fois dans sa carrière. L'auteur nous propose un test à partir d'une question d'apparence anodine : quelles sont vos représentations de l'orientation professionnelle ? L'ouvrage nous plonge au coeur des représentations de l'orientation professionnelle pour explorer leurs images et leurs métaphores.

Michel Thiébaut, fort d'un doctorat en lettres, signe là l'étude rigoureuse de l'oeuvre maîtresse de François Bourgeon dans le contexte historique de son récit. Son travail reposant sur une riche documentation et des recherches poussées, il permet une relecture passionnante du récit de François Bourgeon.