Important LIBRARY FUND of documentation in French,... Lot 14

Important LIBRARY FUND of documentation in French, English and Chinese by Le Monde journalist Frédéric EDELMANN (1951-2024), mainly devoted to French and international architecture. It includes reference works on ancient, modern and contemporary architecture, exhibition catalogs and monographs on architects (Vitruvius, Palladio, Piranesi, Pujet, Lecqueu, Mansart, Soufflot, Hittorff, Garnier, Labrouste, Van de Velde, Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Mackintosh, Lloyd Wright, Frank Ghery), cities (Moscow, New York, Chicago, Paris, Aleppo), countries (France, Italy, Afghanistan, Yemen, Arab World), theoretical works and heritage editions.Particular attention has been paid in this library to Chinese and Japanese architecture and culture in general (religion, cities (Shanghai, Beijing, etc.), ancient architecture, bridges, Chinese regions, literature, personalities, Mao, etc.), Some works are enriched by autographs signed by the authors or architects, notably Renzo Piano, Henri Ciriani, Christian de Portzamparc, Henri Gaudin, Laurent Greilsamer.some works of History and History of Art, as well as some works in Chinese and Japanese. It was by mutual agreement with Caroline Edelmann that we decided to sell the library of her husband Frédéric Edelmann (1951-2024) in a single lot, to preserve the integrity and coherence of this important documentary source from which he drew for his writing. Frédéric Edelmann was a journalist and critic with Le Monde since 1977, specializing in architecture and urban planning. In 1977, the year the Centre Pompidou was inaugurated, Frédéric Edelmann joined Le Monde as a freelancer in the cultural department. He covered architecture, heritage and urban planning alongside and with the support of personalities such as André Fermigier and André Chastel. He chronicled major construction projects, particularly in Paris during the Mitterrand years. Editor and member of the editorial board of Le Monde in 1979, he became deputy head of the cultural department from 1981 to 1984 and head of the press and audiovisual sector. However, it is his columns on architecture, heritage and urban planning that remain his main interests and the core of an activity in which he seeks to assert critical freedom. Frédéric Edelmann follows the emergence of a new generation of architects, such as Piano, Gaudin, Gehry, Nouvel, Portzamparc, Koolhaas, Venturi & Scott Brown and Isozaki, who are profoundly renewing the discipline, with a sharp pen that is as elegant as it is witty. Numerous books in his library are devoted to them, some of which are dedicated to him. A keen observer of professional practices, he knows how to present the multiple implications of an architectural project in all their breadth and clarity. In 1983, fascinated by the inclusion of architecture in cities, he curated the exhibition "Chicago Architecture-1833-1983" (Paris 1983, Chicago 1984) and co-authored the catalog, before analyzing the changes in Barcelona in the run-up to the 1992 Olympic Games. He was appointed administrator of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1987-1991). In 1990, the French Ministry of Public Works awarded him the Grand Prix National de la critique architecturale for his columns on architecture, heritage and urban planning, in recognition of his "courageous stance and freedom of expression". In 1993, he was awarded the medal for architectural analysis by the Academy of Architecture, of which he became an associate member, as well as the City of Barcelona prize for journalistic coverage of urban transformations in the Catalan metropolis (1993 and 2006). He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2002 (Ministry of Health), and an Officier des Arts et Lettres (Ministry of Culture). After the Unesco World Heritage Symposium in Suzhou (1998), he became heavily involved as a columnist and lecturer in the defense of Chinese heritage and the revival of contemporary architecture. For some fifteen years, he covered China's urban transformations, endeavoring to publicize the destruction affecting cities and heritage, the emergence of a new generation of architects, and the pharaonic construction of the Beijing Olympic Games... From 1998 to 2008, he participated in the work of the Observatory of Contemporary Architecture in China (Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine). He is a member of the steering committee for the co