Claude-Nicolas Le Doux: Architecture & Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime

Vidler, Anthony

Published by MIT Press Cambridge (Mass.) 1990

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1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New quarto xv + 447pp., b/w plates, text ills., plans, notes, bibliog., index, 'Examines Le Doux's work and life in the context of the Revolutionary period. it discusses his education, early career and the development of his personal idiom as a domestic architect. It analyses his Saline de Chaux, the celebrated factory town; the Palace of Justice of Aix-de-Provence; the Theatre of Besancon; the Paris tollgates and 'The Ideal City of Chaux' as examples of a 'modern classicism' that would reinvent the ancient forms with contemporary meaning.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Claude-Nicolas Le Doux: Architecture & Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime
• Publisher: MIT Press Cambridge (Mass.) 1990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included