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

Anthony Vidler

Published by Birkhäuser 2021

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution. Second and expanded edition

Anthony Vidler

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035620832

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The predessor of modernity

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux’s influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects – the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux – reveal the architect’s allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect.

Vidler is an eminent authority on enlightenment architecture
New chapter on Ledoux's influence and perception
Ledoux’s architecture is of timeless elegance

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Prof. Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union, New York

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	5
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
PART I: A CAREER OPEN TO TALENT, 1760–1789
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6. GALLO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
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PART II: FROM NEW TOWN TO UTOPIA, 1776–1806
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11. AGRONOMIC ARCHITECTURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Original publisher: "Editions Hazan, Paris"
Edition: 2nd edition
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 168
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 94
- Coloured Illustrations: 48
Keywords: Neoclassical architecture; french revolution; urban planning; Utopianism; modernism; architectural theory; ideal city; town planning

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Published: August 2, 2021
ISBN: 9783035620832

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Published: August 2, 2021
ISBN: 9783035620818