François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard, ‘Portrait of Juliette Récamier‘ (1802)
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Bernard Tschumi
From ‘Advertisements for Architecture’ (1976-77) by Bernard Tschumi.
Tschumi illustrated several of his early theoretical texts with Advertisements for Architecture, a series of postcard-sized juxtapositions of words and images. Each was a manifesto of sorts, confronting the dissociation between the immediacy of spatial experience and the analytical definition of theoretical concepts.
The Society of Beaux-Arts Architects
A photograph from the 1931 Society of Beaux Arts Architects Costume Ball, where architects traditionally dress up as their best/most famous building.
In front and center is William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building.
