A civic utopia : architecture and the city in France, 1765-1837 / Basile Baudez & Nicholas Olsberg ; editor, Markus Lähteenmäki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baudez, Basile, 1974- author.

Olsberg, R. Nicholas, author.

Contributor:

Courtauld Institute Galleries, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural drawing--France--Paris.

Architectural drawing.

Paris (France)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Paris (France).

Buildings.

France--Paris.

Genre:

Exhibition publications.

Physical Description:

i, 28 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Manufacture:

London, England : PUSH.

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Drawing Matter Studies, 2016.

Summary:

Expanding upon a selection of architectural drawings from the exhibition that it accompanies, this book traces how a new model of the modern French city emerged in Enlightenment-era France. Architectural drawings of public buildings and public spaces served as models for the expression of an ordered and open civic life as the foundation of an ideal polity.

Contents:

Introduction

Law, order and the beautiful / by Nicholas Olsberg

Case studies / by Basile Baudez.

Notes:

Statement of responsibility from dust jacket.

Published to accompany an exhibition held by Drawing Matter in collaboration with The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 8, 2016-January 8, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780995630901

0995630909

OCLC:

966321922