Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution - Hardcover

Vidler, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3764374853 ISBN 13: 9783764374853

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3764374853
• ISBN 13: 9783764374853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159