Architecture de C.N. Ledoux : collection qui rassemble tous les genres de bâtiments employes dans l'ordre social.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806.

Contributor:

Ramée, D. (Daniel), 1806-1887.

Vidler, Anthony.

Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Architecture--France.

Architecture.

France.

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1 (xvii pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 300 pages of plates) : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Architectural Press, in association with the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library of Columbia University, 1983.

Summary:

Few architects have had a vision of architecture as provocative as that of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. His designs, inspired by the belief that a building should be characterized by its functions, are allusive, humorous, and rich.

At the time of his death in 1806, Ledoux had published one volume of 125 plates focusing on his plans for a utopian city. He had also completed 175 additional plates for future publications. Daniel Ramee assembled all 300 in two volumes in 1847. The definitive Ramee edition has been reproduced here in a convenient one-volume format. Also included is an introduction by Anthony Vidler.

"This is an attractive and affordable edition of a work of immense contemporary and historical significance". -- Joel Sanders, Design Book Review

"The plates are superbly printed and, of course, comprise the most inventive series of essays upon classical compositions and detailing". -- Architects' Journal

Notes:

Includes new introduction in English by Anthony Vidler and the original prospectus in English and French.

No more published.

Vol. 2 issued without t.p.

"Premier volume contenant des plans, élévations, coupes, vues perspectives, de palais, hôtels-de-ville, temples, bibliothèques publiques, bourses, théatres, usines, greniers à sel, bâtiments de graduation, bains publics, marchés, églises, cimetières, propylées de Paris, etc., etc., etc.

Title on added engraved t.p.: L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806. Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de la législation.

ISBN:

0910413037 :

OCLC:

192112944