[PDF] The Architecture Of The French Enlightenment eBook

Author : Allan Braham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520067394

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Allan Braham's comprehensive treatment of this brilliant and complex period introduces the reader to the major buildings, architects, and architectural patrons of the day. At the same time, it explores the broader determinants of architectural production: the rapid economic expansion of Paris and the main provincial centers and the increasing demand for improved public amenities--theaters, schools, markets, and hospitals. This generously illustrated book provides a vivid commentary on society and manners in pre-Revolutionary France.

Author : Richard A. Etlin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226220857

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Richard A. Etlin demonstrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he reconsiders eighteenth-century French architecture with regard to the ways in which it was informed by symbolic space. This book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.

Author : Antoine Picon
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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This book offers a unique insight to the teaching and practice of architects and engineers.

Author : Daniel Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107021480

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Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.

Author : Vidler
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. The author redefines the relationship between architecture and society during the period and looks at the reactions of contemporary architects.

Author : Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Aesthetics, French
ISBN : 9780892362356

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This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.

Author : Ignacy Potocki
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271066295

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A translation of Polish politician and architect Ignacy Potocki's unpublished treatise Remarks on Architecture. Includes an introduction that places Potocki and the treatise within the political, social, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Poland.

Author : Erika Naginski
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892369590

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This volume explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment.