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Claude-Nicolas LeDoux - 2nd Edition by Anthony Vidler (Hardcover)

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Highlights

  • Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture.
  • About the Author: Prof. Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union, New York
  • 168 Pages
  • Architecture, Individual Architects & Firms

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Book Synopsis



Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux's influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects - the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux - reveal the architect's allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect.



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"So wie Ledoux' Tätigkeit für das Ancien Régime das schwierige Verhältnis zwischen Macht und Architektur offenbart, lässt sein Anspruch, nicht nur Bauten zu schaffen, sondern auch die Gesellschaft zu formen, eine Hybris erkennen, die der Profession insbesondere seit dem 20. Jahrhundert immer wieder zum Vorwurf gemacht wird. Gerade deshalb, so Vidler, bleibe die Auseinandersetzung mit Ledoux lohnenswert - weil es von einer optimistischen und selbstbewussten Moderne kündet, deren Unzulänglichkeiten erst noch aufgezeigt werden mussten." (Achim Reese in baunetz, 11.2021)

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"Vidler präsentiert [...] ein weit gespanntes Panoptikum historischer und zeitgenössischer Rezeptionsfelder in Ledoux' Schaffen. [...] Insgesamt kommt dem Werk ein sehr guter propädeutischer Stellenwert für die architekturtheoretischen Auseinandersetzungen im Zeitalter der Französischen Revolution zu." (Angelika Dreyer in Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 12.2023)




About the Author



Prof. Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union, New York
Dimensions (Overall): 9.6 Inches (H) x 8.6 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 168
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: Individual Architects & Firms
Publisher: Birkhauser
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Anthony Vidler
Language: German
Street Date: September 15, 2021
TCIN: 1005682249
UPC: 9783035620795
Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-0482
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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