Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is the "boldest and most extreme" (Nikolaus Pevsner) French revolutionary architect. Since the 1930s, when he was rediscovered by Emil Kaufmann in the famous study "From Ledoux to Le Corbusier," his visionary but widely realized buildings have served as a source of inspiration for unusual designs. His famous tollgates are familiar to every cultured traveler to Paris, and the TV film on the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans has also brought fresh proof of his popular appeal.
Les mer
Features an accessible introduction to one of the most visionary precursors of modern architecture.

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ISBN
9783764374853
Publisert
2006-05-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Birkhauser
Vekt
954 gr
Høyde
250 mm
Bredde
220 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
159

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Biographical note

The author, Anthony Vidler, is professor of architecture at The Cooper Union in New York. In the course of his career at Princeton University, UCLA, and Cornell University, he has become one of the great contemporary historians and theorists of architecture.