Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : : Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution. Second and expanded edition /

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : : Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution. Second and expanded edition / / Anthony Vidler.

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) gilt heute als Hauptvertreter der französischen Revolutionsarchitektur. Sein vielgestaltiger Erfindungsreichtum griff die Architekturideale seiner Zeit auf und entwickelte daraus kühne Utopien. Dieses Buch stellt Ledoux‘ Bauten und Projekte in ihrer ästhetischen wie...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Vidler, Anthony,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2021]
"Editions Hazan, Paris", , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: A CAREER OPEN TO TALENT, 1760–1789
  • 1. CLASSICAL MAXIMS
  • 2. EMBLEMS OF NOBILITY
  • 3. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
  • 4. THE ARCHITECTURE OF PRODUCTION
  • 5. LANGUAGES OF CHARACTER
  • 6. GALLO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY
  • 7. THEATRICAL VISION
  • 8. PHYSIOGNOMIES OF JUSTICE
  • 9. THE PROPYLAEA OF PARIS
  • PART II: FROM NEW TOWN TO UTOPIA, 1776–1806
  • 10. PHYSIOCRATIC REGIONALISM
  • 11. AGRONOMIC ARCHITECTURE
  • 12. TEMPLES OF SOCIABILITY
  • 13. UTOPIA OR REVOLUTION
  • CONCLUSION: L’ARCHITECTE MAUDIT
  • NOTES
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF PERSONS
  • INDEX OF LOCATIONS AND PROJECTS
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

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