French architecture and design have long demonstrated a connection between innovation, grandeur, refinement and culture. In recent decades, particularly through the years of President Mitterand, France has become an architectural Mecca with such bold and controversial structures as the Institute du Monde Arabe, the Parc de la Villette, the Opera House in Lyon, and many others.

This collection of digital photography on CD-ROM identifies the place of French Architecture in relationship to thought, technology, religion, the arts and culture. The collection represents a historical awareness of edifices and other structures from selected urban and rural regions of France that have made a significant impact on the direction of Western history.

This photographic CD is a simple, yet ambitious concept combining recent travel experiences throughout France with meetings that included interviews with prominent architects and designers within the various regions of the country.

Architects interviewed have involved a stellar line-up of personalities which included Francoise Jourda, the Jean Nouvel Studio, Odile Dec, Dominique Perrault and Architecture Studio; all of which have contributed to the insight of this collection of digital photography through their designs, thoughts, and philosophy on the condition of architecture and it's relationships to the general culture of France -- past and present.

The over 500 digital images on this CD features French Architecture from historic to avant-garde and has captured the designs of Andre Le Notre, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc, Gae Aulenti, Architecture Studio, Bernard Tschumi, Adrien Fainsilber, Le Corbusier, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and many others.

View a sample of our Tour de France in our Image Library. To purchase this exciting resource CD library, click here to place your order by check, credit card or money order.