The Architecture Of The French Enlightenment
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The Architecture of the French Enlightenment
Author: Allan Braham
language: en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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.
Symbolic Space
Author: Richard A. Etlin
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 1996-12-15
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.
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
This book offers a unique insight to the teaching and practice of architects and engineers.