Marie-Hélène Fabre
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Marie-Hélène Fabre is an architect and researcher in urban planning and design. She studied the urban evolution of the Seoul metropolitan region in South Korea for her Ph.D. at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France and worked as Education Coordinator at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris. Her work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, where the work originally appeared.
Primary Contributions (1)
Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, stadium in P’yŏngyang, North Korea, that was completed in 1989. Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, built on Rungra Island on the Taedong River, is the world’s largest-capacity stadium, with 150,000 seats. It stands eight stories high, and its total floor area covers 2,228,129…
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Publications (1)
1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces (October 2007)
This book is a one-stop guide to the world’s greatest architectural achievements. Comprehensive and concise, it contains reviews of the most influential structures ever built worldwide. Covering a diverse array of architectural traditions and construction styles–from the bold and brash to the spiritual and reserved, from Angkor Wat to the Parthenon, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim–the book celebrates the vision and achievement of world architecture. Entries...
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