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Francois Blondel : architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution / Anthony Gerbino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerbino, Anthony, author.
- Series:
- Classical tradition in architecture.
- The classical tradition in architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blondel, François, 1618-1686--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blondel, François.
- Architectural practice--France--History--17th century.
- Architectural practice.
- Classicism in architecture--France.
- Classicism in architecture.
- Architecture--Mathematics.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the ""new science"" of the seventeenth century. The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarshi
- Contents:
- Mathematician, engineer, courtier
- The rebirth of French classicism I : the Académie Royale d'Architecture
- The rebirth of French classicism II : Paris
- Architects and mathematicians
- Architecture versus erudition : the Perrault-Blondel debate revisited
- Architecture and the Encyclopedia : Blondel as reader and collector
- Conclusion : Blondel's Nachleben.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-69487-7
- 0-203-71806-2
- 1-283-88575-1
- 1-135-69480-X
- 9780203718063
- OCLC:
- 823389177
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