Le Havre

at Rouen and Le Havre. Population declined slightly between 1851 and 1946, as in much of rural France during that period, but immigration and a relatively high birth rate have accounted for an increase since World War II. Recent growth has favored the eastern part of Eure, due in part to its proximity to Paris. Agricultural production is divided approximately equally between arable farming and cattle raising. Highly productive cereal farms are found in the east of the region, while dairying predominates in areas such as the Pays de Bray in Seine-Maritime and the Pays d’Ouche and Lieuvin in Eure. Dieppe is an important fishing port. Le Havre, Rouen, and other areas along the Seine River are highly industrialized. Petroleum refineries outside Le Havre and between Le Havre and Rouen have established Seine-Maritime as a major petrochemical center. More recently, Haute-Normandie has become a locus for nuclear power production based on coastal sites near Dieppe. The automobile industry has developed at various sites including Cléon outside Elbeuf and near Le Havre at Sandouville, and in Eure, close to Paris, various manufacturing activities include those of the pharmaceutical industry. Tourists are attracted to the region to visit seaside resorts, as well as the ruins of Jumièges Abbey, Saint-Wandrille-Rançon Abbey, and the church at Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville. Other historic sites include the 12th-century ruin of Château Gaillard, built by Richard I, and the town of Les Andelys.…

was The Sea at Le Havre (1868, oil in canvas) by Claude Monet. This particular painting was from the Impressionist movement. It depicts an almost baron shore, with choppy waves. There is a sail boat close to…

The film Le Havre (2011), directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, follows Marcel Marx, a poor shoe shiner living in Le Havre, France. Early in the film, the French police find a group of African immigrants hiding in a shipping container. One of them makes a run for it and escapes their capture. Idrissa, the young boy who escapes, ends up running into Marcel, who offers him food, lies to the police about seeing him, and invites him into his home. Throughout the film,…

got criticized in different ways and also a love hate relationship towards this project. 20th century architect did not accept the concept and futurist ideas that he created however in 21st century Farnsworth House have been declared as a masterpiece of modern architecture. Architecture create different ranges of forms purely by using his spirit as well as prioritising human’s ability to connect with the look, feel and shape of the form where the focus point is on the building each masterpiece…

writes or, as I apply it in this paper, the architect builds, is an aesthetic and ethical choice based on their formal approach in treating the material. Material The material is an embodied evidence of culture. Its investigation helps to trace the early stage of development and proliferation of certain ideas. Soviet new architecture is known for its material: reinforced concrete. Concrete had its long history, but it was long forgotten after the Roman Empire fall. It was rediscovered by…

My arms were killing me. In an effort to distract myself from the pain, I began to mentally go through my favorite scenes from Harry potter, but even the thought of my favorite book couldn’t keep my mind off my discomfort for long. Huffing, I lugged the water-filler bucket uphill, careful not to spill too much of its precious contents. That would mean another trek downhill and I’ve had enough of that for one day. I brightened up when I neared my destination- a simple hut made of mud and clay,…

Carl Schorske’s Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture contains a wide assortment of men and ideas that had a profound impact on the modern intellect and culture of Vienna. Schorske’s work is the culmination of a twenty-five-year study, and within the first seventy-two pages, he introduces the rich and complex culture of the Austrian capital at the turn of the last century. A simplified version of his thesis is the rise of Viennese version of modernism along with the birth of the…

Architectural Beauty The architectural debate about symmetry and proportion As Vitruvius said, there are three principles of assessing an architecture, which are “durability, convenience, and beauty ”. Another renowned architect Albertii also defined three main factors: firmitas, utilitas and venustas (robustness, utility and beauty). So we could confirm that the beauty is a widely accepted requisite element of architecture. In terms of the beauty, most of the time it is related to visual…

Imagine a world where you had to earn your place in society. You had limited resources and the rest of the world looked you down upon. There was no respect, no dignity, just survival. Poverty, sickness, pangs of hunger, and death of loved ones were all you knew. While the people suffered greatly, the upper class had an abundance of resources and was sapping the life out of the lower class. This world spoken of was not fiction, but reality for those in the era of the French Revolution, and in…

Intelligent Architecture In her book The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand portrays the protagonist, Howard Roark, as an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in unimportance rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. The book follows his fight to practice what the public sees as modern architecture, which he considers to be superior, despite an establishment focused on tradition-worship. In the book Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of…