Yves Marchand/Romain Meffre

Budapest Courtyards

Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre

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Steidl Verlag
25 June 2020

Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes & machines); Photographs: collections

Between 2014 and 2016, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre visited 400 of the more than 4,000 internal courtyards in Budapest. Their large number and variety of styles incorporating different facets of classicism and modernity make them a remarkable architectural phenomenon-a charming second city within the city.

Marchand and Meffre systematically documented these courtyards, producing a typological series that describes this particular form of collective housing and reflects the city's tumultuous history, its changing political regimes and economy. Budapest Courtyards allows us to delight in the crumbling grandeur of the courtyards, and observe the developments and personal strategies of adaptation which they evidence.

In line with their work on Detroit and Gunkanjima Island, Marchand and Meffre have managed to navigate two extremes at the intimate heart of the Hungarian capital to best superimpose the Budapests of today and the last century, producing an extensive series that offers an untarnished view of this unique heritage. Hélène Bienvenu

By: Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 330mm, Width: 260mm,
ISBN: 9783958292550
ISBN 10: 3958292550
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 25 June 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Born in 1981 and 1987 in the Parisian suburbs, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre started photographing independently in 2001. In 2005 they began to collaborate for their project The Ruins of Detroit, which Steidl published to acclaim in 2010 and which is now in its fourth edition. Steidl has also published Marchand and Meffre's Gunkanjima (2013).