Background
Dupré was born on October 3, 1956, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the daughter of architectural preservationists: Robert Edgar Dupré and Dolores Albanese.
Providence, RI 02912, United States
Dupré has received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1978.
409 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Dupré also earned a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 2011.
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Churches is a work that reflects the grandeur of its subject matter. In this book, Judith Dupre presents an architectural tour of fifty-nine of the world's most enduring Christian churches, from such celebrated landmarks as St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, and Le Corbusier's Chapel at Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp, France, to lesser-known masterpieces, including Huialoha Congregational Church on Maui and the Church on the Water in Hokkaido, Japan. Special theme essays cover the earliest Christian churches, the construction of Gothic cathedrals, the evolution of the baptismal font, churches designed by contemporary artists, and the revival of meditative labyrinth walking. With photographs and essays, this book offers a nuanced portrait of each structure, blending its architectural history with a deep appreciation for art and a reverence for religious traditions. Encompassing houses of worship from six major Christian denominations and all corners of the earth, Churches is a chronology of faith and achievement that will inspire anyone interested in architecture, art, travel, religion, or photography.
https://www.amazon.com/Churches-Judith-Dupre/dp/0060194383/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dupre%2C+Churches&qid=1610357151&sr=8-1
2001
(Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition ...)
Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith Dupré's best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and informative updates throughout. Unique in scale and design, Skyscrapers explores in-depth more than 60 buildings, including One World Trade Center, Burj Dubai, the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Petronas Towers, the Tribune Tower, the Lipstick Building, and the Phare Tower. This completely revised and full-color edition presents 10 new buildings, among them The Shard in London (2012, Renzo Piano), the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong (2010, Kohn Pedersen Fox), the Shanghai Tower (2014, Gensler Architects), and the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah (2018, Adrian Smith), which will be the tallest building in the world when completed. Arranged chronologically by date of building construction, each informative spread has photos of the featured building from various angles, building plans, diagrams, the building's historical background, and technological information.
https://www.amazon.com/Skyscrapers-History-Extraordinary-Buildings-Revised/dp/1579129420/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dupre%2C+Skyscrapers&qid=1610357096&sr=8-1
2013
(From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-th...)
From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world: One World Trade Center. The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries around the world, and more than 25,000 workers helped raise the tower, which consumed ninety million pounds of steel, one million square feet of glass, and enough concrete to pave a sidewalk from New York to Chicago. With more than seventy interviews with the people most intimately involved, and unprecedented access to the building site, suppliers, and archives, Duprè unfurls the definitive story of fourteen years of conflict and controversy-and its triumphant resolution.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013CATWOY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
2016
(From New York Times, best-selling author Judith Duprè com...)
From New York Times, best-selling author Judith Duprè comes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed "elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art" (Bustle). Technological advances, structural daring, and artistic vision have propelled the evolution of bridge design around the world. This visual history of the world's landmark bridges has been thoroughly revised and updated since its initial publication twenty-five years ago, and now showcases well-known classics as well as modern innovators.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XFV3ZSG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
2017
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Dupré was born on October 3, 1956, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the daughter of architectural preservationists: Robert Edgar Dupré and Dolores Albanese.
Dupré has received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1978. She attended Open Atelier of Design and Architecture from 1971-1981. She also earned a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 2011.
Dupré began her publishing career with a children's book titled The Mouse Bride: A Mayan Folktale, and also ventured into the graphic-novel genre before moving on to write a series of books about many of the world's manmade structures that includes Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges.
Her first offering in this field was Skyscrapers, a collection of photographs presenting the world's most famous buildings, included in chronological order with accompanying historical information. The book itself is unique in format, measuring eighteen inches tall and eight inches wide. Also unusual in its look is Bridges, a one-and-a-half-foot-long book that reaches a span of three feet when open.
Church structures "embody a society's highest aesthetic and technical aspirations," Dupré stated in the foreword to her 2001 tribute to these architectural gems. There is nothing usual about the coffee-table book Churches, beginning with its split-cover binding. Readers open "doors" to view the book's many pages that contain more than 300 photographs and floor plans, an introduction by Mario Botta, and the author's commentary about each specific structure. Featuring sixty-four essays on landmark Christian houses of worship from the first century to the present day, Churches is marvelous for its concise and authoritative commentaries as well as for its rich color photography.
She is the author of the 2016 book titled One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building and official biographer of One World Trade Center and. Dupré is the only author given unfettered access to the Trade Center site, team, and archives by The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. She presents the story of the new World Trade Center in its entirety: from Mayor Rudy Giuliani's vow to rebuild on September 12, 2001, through the complex, often contentious interactions between multiple public and private agencies with a stake in the project, to the placing of One World Trade Center’s spire in 2013. The book incorporates over seventy interviews with major participants, including architects David M. Childs, Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava, and Michael Arad.
Her books have been translated into fourteen languages. Their unusual shapes and bindings echo their subject matter, and honor the tradition and material presence of the illuminated book. She has been described as "a scholar with a novelist’s eye for detail and a journalist’s easy style."
(From New York Times, best-selling author Judith Duprè com...)
2017(Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition ...)
2013(From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-th...)
2016(Churches is a work that reflects the grandeur of its subj...)
2001