Les Chantiers nord-africains was a monthly review of architecture and building in North Africa, published in Algiers. It became Chantiers nord-africains in December 1930 and, with the new series of February 1933, simply Chantiers, covering Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
The information on this page was extracted automatically from the issues and still needs to be reviewed.
From 1933 the masthead describes it as a revue mensuelle illustrée de la construction en Afrique du Nord, published by Le Journal Général, Travaux publics et Bâtiment, 3 rue Pélissier, Algiers; later covers carry the subtitle Architecture, Décoration, Urbanisme, Travaux publics.
This database holds 102 PDFs, from January 1929 to November 1938, including a bound volume that begins in January 1935, with page-aligned transcripts for 66 of them, and 955 buildings and projects extracted from the captions and the text.
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955 buildings and projects have been extracted from the issues; a selection is listed here, each opening the issue at its page. See all 955 projects in the project directory.
The publisher and director of the journal, as printed in its issues.
Travaux publics et Bâtiment; 3 rue Pélissier, Algiers.
Named as directeur-gérant in the issues of 1938, printed by the Imprimerie F. Fontana, Algiers.
Selected scholarship on the journal, and the institutional sources from which the database draws its scans and transcripts.
The PDFs come from Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF). The text was transcribed and aligned page by page with the PDFs.
Issues of Les Chantiers nord-africains and Chantiers are considered to be in the public domain: under EU law (Directive 2006/116/EC) the journal as a collective work is in the public domain, as more than 70 years have elapsed since the publication of the issues held here (1929 to 1938). However, individually authored contributions may carry separate protection: texts, drawings and photographs by authors who died after 1955 may remain under copyright in the EU. The Architectural Periodicals Database does not assert ownership of the original creative content, only of the database itself. If you are a rights holder and believe your work has been used without appropriate permission, please contact us at info@architecturalperiodicals.com.