The Architecture Of The French Enlightenment

Author : Allan Braham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520067394
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the French Enlightenment written by Allan Braham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780226220857
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Space written by Richard A. Etlin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment written by Antoine Picon and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique insight to the teaching and practice of architects and engineers.

Author : Ignacy Potocki
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271070544
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remarks on Architecture written by Ignacy Potocki and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Poland’s 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. At this moment of intensive national postmortem, Ignacy Potocki, an eminent statesman and co-author of the Constitution, wrote the treatise Remarks on Architecture. One of the best-preserved examples of early modern Polish architectural thought, Potocki’s work announces itself as a project of national introspection, with architecture playing a direct role in the betterment of the nation. Addressed to the contemporary Polish nobility, the book argues that architecture is a vessel for cultural values and that it plays an important part in the formation and critique of broader national traditions. Throughout, Potocki conveys the lessons of a Vitruvian canon that shaped Continental classical architectural theory and practice throughout the early modern period. Expertly translated by Carolyn Guile and featuring an introduction that explores Polish Enlightenment architectural writing as an example of cultural exchange, inheritance, and transformation, this edition of Potocki’s treatise broadens our understanding of European architectural history during the early modern period.

Author : Daniel Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021480
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment written by Daniel Brewer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writting of the Walls written by Vidler and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780892362356
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations written by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary L. Myers
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996258
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century written by Mary L. Myers and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erika Naginski
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892369590
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sculpture and Enlightenment written by Erika Naginski and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment.

Author : J.B. Shank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226749479
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Newton Wars & the Beginning of the French Enlightenment written by J.B. Shank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by the particular historical developments of the early eighteenth century. A comprehensive study of public culture, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment digsbelow the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with Enlightenment thought to examine the actual historical changes that brought them together in eighteenth-century time and space. Drawing on the full range of early modern scientific sources, from studied scientific treatises and academic papers to book reviews, commentaries, and private correspondence, J. B. Shank challenges the widely accepted claim that Isaac Newton’s solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophemovement.