Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (second and expanded edition)

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Author: Anthony VidlerClaude-Nicolas Ledoux is today regarded as the chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected th e architectural ideals of his era. His best-known projects reveal the architect’s allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. Ledoux’s influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book.With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect. ISBN 9783035620818. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 168 pages. 94 b/w, 48 colour ills. 25 x 22 cm.available Show more