30 years of architecture in the Loire region

How is the city evolving? How can we use existing buildings to build the city of tomorrow? These are the questions addressed in this issue of the review 303, devoted to the architecture of the Loire region, although some of its subjects can be extended to the country as a whole.

This issue looks at the different types of housing, from social housing (HLM) to retirement homes, by way of the individual townhouse and the suburban estate home. Broadly speaking, it sets out to present the approaches now under way as a result of changing urban strategies. In recent years, a fresh outlook has emerged towards social housing, retirement homes and the adaptation of facilities for people with reduced mobility. The articles are written by a range of professionals – architect, sociologist, urban planner, architecture critic and others – who draw on projects completed in particular on the Île de Nantes, in Saint-Nazaire and in Le Mans.

Alongside this issue of 303, the region has published a guide listing more than 340 buildings in the Pays de la Loire, completed between 1982 and 2012. If politics has its paperbacks, the architecture of the Loire region has its review. Although its name and its means of distribution are those of the press, it remains no less a work of current critical reflection. Revue 303, Architectures et Mutations

Publication date: 20 June 2013
Format: 225 x 300 mm
Pages: 96
Price: €18
EAN: 3357321303028

Guide: 30 ans d’architecture contemporaine en Pays de la Loire

Publication date: 20 June 2013
Format: 140 x 240 mm
Pages: 256
Price: €21
EAN: 9782951744455