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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #757663 in Books
- Published on: 2006-05-05
- Original language: French
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 159 pages
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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.
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Claude-NIcholas Ledoux by Anthony Vidler
An excellant account of Ledoux's work and life, beautifully designed and well illustrated.
I can only quote from Elain Harwood's review in the Architects Journal of 17th August 2007:
"Superficially a coffee-table glossy, this book has real depth. It explores both the physical and intellectual world of Ledoux's times- however, the man himself remains a shadow."
Louis Hellman Architectural cartoonist
