beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Grand Bain

Stéphane  Asseline / Philippe  Ayrault / Christian Décamps / Laurent  Kruszyk / Jean-Bernard  Vialles / Emmanuelle Philippe / Jessy Jouan / Éric Karsenty

First used for sanitation, then as places to learn to swim and compete, before becoming facilities for relaxation and leisure, swimming pools in the Paris region have been profoundly influenced by public use since the second half of the 19th century. A variety of architectural forms have emerged, ranging from simple pools to industrial structures and, in some cases, highly original designs. To this day, the long history of swimming pools in the Île-de-France region has shown how architects' inventiveness has been put to work in the service of all aquatic activities.

This book offers a unique perspective on these everyday spaces through a selection of photographs taken since the 1980s by the Inventaire d'Île-de-France. Taken from a corpus of thousands of images, they offer a poetic view of objects, capturing the light that floods the pools or erasing the sometimes rough contours of the structures.

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