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Excerpts have been selected from the following books and essays: John Ruskin

Lucien Hervé: Building Images iris Fourteenth-century Europe was ravaged byOlivier Beer Lucien Herv (b. 1910), one of the great architectural photographers of the twentieth century, collaborated with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the renowned architect died in 1965. Herv approached his subjects seeking not only to document the buildings he was commissioned to photograph but also, especially, to convey a sense of space, texture, and structure. Through light and shadow, Herv defined the dialogue between substance and form. By