“Paris, drawn walk” by Pierre Thiébaut, strolls in black and white – Libération

The architect and urban planner Pierre Thiébaut explores the centuries-old city with 80 districts, on the lookout for the juxtaposition of the layers of past centuries.

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Heritage architect and chief town planner of the State, Pierre Thiébaut has undertaken a colossal undertaking because the 208 pages of this album in Italian format must list almost a thousand drawings. Far from the tourist work which celebrates the architectural grandeur of a city, this book is the black and white notebook of a Paris pedestrian whose eye and hand know how to make the perspectives speak by pointing out a thousand revealing details. His gaze is deliberately that of an archaeologist on the lookout for the juxtaposition of the strata of past centuries which sometimes reveal so many vanished Paris. Numerous maps (even on the edges of the book) and at the end of the volume a useful glossary of architecture, chronologies of styles, indexes of themes and monuments provide the possibility of numerous other routes.

Gentrified butcher shops

Pierre Thiébaut anatomizes the known and little-known buildings of Paris by district, revealing a centuries-old city with 80 neighborhoods which draws its harmony from its diversity, respect for the average height of the buildings and the pigeon gray of its zinc roofs. But the secret of the Great City is that it is a multiplicity of villages which make its walker an authentic “peasant” to quote Aragon. We stroll there from the Royal Palace, huge edge