Few architects have had a vision of architecture as provocative as that of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. In 1847 Daniel Ram e assembled 300 plates by Ledoux in two volumes. The Ram e edition is now scarce, but has been reproduced here in a one-volume format. Princeton Architectural Press's Reprint Series was established in 1981 to make rare volumes on ...
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving Coup d'oeil du theatre Besancon, in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centerpiece of in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury's close reading of Ledoux's celebrated icon uses it to excavate the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism's most ...
A product of detailed research into late-eighteenth-century cultural and social history, this book examines the controversial architect's life and work in the context of the Revolutionary period.
Few architects have had a vision of architecture as provocative as that of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. In 1847 Daniel Ram e assembled 300 plates by Ledoux in two volumes. The Ram e edition is now scarce, but has been reproduced here in a one-volume format. Princeton Architectural Press's Reprint Series was established in 1981 to make rare volumes on ...
A product of detailed research into late-eighteenth-century cultural and social history, this book examines the controversial architect's life and work in the context of the Revolutionary period.
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