Richard Pare (born 20 January 1948 in

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

, England) is an English photographer known for his work documenting

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. He was born in

, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the

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. He received a

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from Chicago in 1973. He was the founding curator of the Photography Collection of the

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. Richard Pare curated the exhibition
Photography and Architecture: 1839–1939
at the

in 1982. Exhibitions of his photographs include
Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32
(2007) and
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
at the

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(2013).

Selected publications

* Richard Pare (1982). ''Photography and Architecture, 1839–1939''. Montréal:

; ew York Callaway Editions. * Richard Pare (1996). ''The Colours of Light: Tadao Ando Architecture''. London: Phaidon. * Richard Pare (2007).
The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932
'. New York: The Monacelli Press. * Richard Pare and

Jean-Louis Cohen Jean-Louis Cohen (born 20 July 1949) is a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning. Since 1994 he has been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York Universi ...

(2018). ''Le Corbusier: The Built Work''. New York: The Monacelli Press. * Richard Pare (2018). ''Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light, Volume 1''. London: Phaidon. (2nd edition)

References

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