Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-emmanuel Viollet-le-duc 1814-1879 - Couverture souple

Bressani, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138563196 ISBN 13 : 9781138563193

Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle and Entretiens sur l'architecture, but also studies on warfare, geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc's complex intellectual development, mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past, showing how restoration, in all its layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his life journey, we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Martin Bressani is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138563196
• ISBN 13: 9781138563193
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 624
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible