Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2006
Book
Hardback
159 pages
978-3-7643-7485-3 (ISBN)
Description
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is the "boldest and most extreme" (Nikolaus Pevsner) French revolutionary architect. Since the 1930s, when he was rediscovered by Emil Kaufmann in the famous study "From Ledoux to Le Corbusier," his visionary but widely realized buildings have served as a source of inspiration for unusual designs. His famous tollgates are familiar to every cultured traveler to Paris, and the TV film on the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans has also brought fresh proof of his popular appeal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
48
48 farbige Abbildungen
48 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 25 cm
Width: 22 cm
Weight
954 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-7485-3 (9783764374853)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The author, Anthony Vidler, is professor of architecture at The Cooper Union in New York. In the course of his career at Princeton University, UCLA, and Cornell University, he has become one of the great contemporary historians and theorists of architecture.