Port-Saïd : Architectures XIXe-XXe siècles. Essais By what technical and ritual

By what technical and ritual procedures do the Solomon Islanders succeed in shaping such remarkable visual devices

reaches the infinity of the sky and rests among the stars

Studying them in their respective interactions

this commission was for Marc Chagall a passport to France

Port-Saïd : Architectures XIXe-XXe siècles. Essais By what technical and ritualDesigned primarily as a guide, this book offers, through a series of illustrated itineraries, a discovery of the different periods of architecture in Port Said, a city founded in 1859 by the "Universal Company of the Suez Maritime Canal", on the occasion of the digging of the famous canal. The book also brings together three stories by French and Egyptian authors that help to understand what this city was like in the past and what it could become