The Architectural Theory Of Viollet Le Duc

Author : Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262720132

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The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc Pdf

Among architects and preservationists, the writings of Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) have long been considered major resources. They inspired a generation of American architects, including Frank Furness, John Wellborn Root, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1894, the critic Montgomery Schuyler observed that Viollet-le-Duc's books "have had the strongest influence on this generation of readers." But for the past century, all but one of his works have been out of print in English. These readings carefully selected from the entire range of Viollet-le-Duc's work make available the historical insights and practical principles of one of the most imaginative, and inspiring architectural theorists of the modern era. M.F. Hearn has culled from Viollet-le-Duc's books on architecture the passages in which his major ideas about the theory of architecture are most cogently expressed.Hearn has arranged and interplated the readings in a sequence of topics covering Viollet-le-Duc's views on the architecture of the past, his convictions about the education of architects, his philosophy of method, principles of design, and his guidelines for restoration. The selections are introduced by a biographical essay connected by interpretive commentaries, and followed by a biographical note.

Author : Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0262220377

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The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Pdf

These readings carefully selected from the entire range of Viollet-le-Duc's work make available the historical insights and practical principles of one of the most imaginative, and inspiring architectural theorists of the modern era.

Author : Charles L. Davis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822986638

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Building Character by Charles L. Davis Pdf

Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book Prize In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.

Author : Ute Poerschke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317245605

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Architectural Theory of Modernism by Ute Poerschke Pdf

Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, to its peak in High Modernism. Functionalist thinking and its postmodern criticism during the second half of the twentieth century is explored, as well as today's functionalism in the context of systems theory, sustainability, digital design, and the information society. The book covers, among others, the theories of Carlo Lodoli, Gottfried Semper, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannes Meyer, Adolf Behne, CIAM, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Charles Jencks, William Mitchell, and Manuel Castells.

Author : Fred Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134370696

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On Altering Architecture by Fred Scott Pdf

In his new text, Fred Scott brings together ideas of what might constitute a theory of interior, or interventional design.

Author : Martin Bressani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317179313

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Architecture and the Historical Imagination by Martin Bressani Pdf

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.

Author : David Spurr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780472051717

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Architecture and Modern Literature by David Spurr Pdf

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

Author : E. Viollet-Le-Duc
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385234680

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Discourses on Architecture by E. Viollet-Le-Duc Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Roland Recht
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226706061

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Believing and Seeing by Roland Recht Pdf

Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, and elaborate structures. In his incisive survey of Gothic art and architecture, Roland Recht argues that this preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Metalworkers, for example, fashioned intricate monstrances and reliquaries for the presentation of sacred articles, and technical advances in stained glass production allowed for more expressive renderings of holy objects. Sculptors, meanwhile, created increasingly naturalistic works and painters used multihued palettes to enhance their subjects’ lifelike qualities. Reimagining these works as a link between devotional practices in the late Middle Ages and contemporaneous theories that deemed vision the basis of empirical truth, Recht provides students and scholars with a new and powerful lens through which to view Gothic art and architecture.

Author : Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020764562

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The Foundations of Architecture by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Pdf

Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980108

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History of Architectural Theory by Hanno-Walter Kruft Pdf

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Author : Gottfried Semper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521180864

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The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings by Gottfried Semper Pdf

Gottfied Semper was the most important German theorist of the nineteenth century. From his first published essay on Greek polychromy in 1834 to his final lecture on the origin of architectural styles in 1869, Semper persistently endeavoured to fashion a comprehensive architectural theory explaining the meaning and transformational nature of architectural form. The breadth and richness of his ideas, both applauded and opposed at the turn of the twentieth century, proved enormously influential in the development of modern theory. Originally published in 1989, this book provides an English translation of a number of Semper's published writings. The introduction seeks to trace the course of Semper's theoretical development over thirty-five years. Semper's ideas, like those of his contemporaries, John Ruskin and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, had enormous influence on the genesis of modern architectural theory and will appeal to both architectural historians and architects.

Author : Franca Trubiano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317510338

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Building Theories by Franca Trubiano Pdf

Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the author’s fascination with the voices of architects, engineers, builders, and craftspeople whose ideas about building have been captured in text. It discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to the art of building. In this, Building Theories argues for the return of a practice of architectural theory that is set amongst building, buildings, and builders. This journey of close reading reinterprets the words of Vitruvius, Alberti, de L’Orme, Le Camus de Mézières, Boullée, Laugier, Rondelet, Semper, Viollet-le-Duc, Hübsch, Bötticher, Berlage, Muthesius, Wagner, Behrendt, Gropius, and Arup. With chapters dedicated to texts from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century, and with a critical eye on architectural theory popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world post-1968, readers are introduced to a wider, more inclusive definition of architectural ideas. Building Theories considers how contemporary scholarship has steered away from the topic of building in its reluctance to admit that both design and construction are central to its concerns. In response, it argues for a realignment of architecture with the concept of techné, with a dual commitment to fabrica e ratio, with a productive return to l’art de bien bastir, with the accurate translation of the term Baukunst, and with an appeal to the architect’s ‘composite mind.’ Students, practitioners, and educators will identify in Building Theories ways of thinking that strive for the integration of design with construction; reject the supposed primacy of the former over the latter; recognize how aesthetics are an insufficient scaffold for subtending the subject of architectural ethics; and accept, without reservation, that material transformations have always been at the origins of built form.

Author : Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc,Maurice Ouradou
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486841175

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Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc,Maurice Ouradou Pdf

Architect and theorist Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–79), a prominent leader in the French Gothic Revival, was active in the restoration of medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration: the cleansing and restoration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. For the next twenty-three years he labored at his task, returning the cathedral to its original beauty and charm. This volume is based on a faithful reproduction of the restored mural paintings of the chapels, notable for their originality of design and the soft and subtle harmony of their coloring. The 60 full-page plates lend themselves to numerous graphic arts applications.

Author : David Watkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226874834

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Morality and Architecture Revisited by David Watkin Pdf

When Morality and Architecture was first published in 1977, it received passionate praise and equally passionate criticism. An editorial in Apollo, entitled "The Time Bomb," claimed that "it deserved to become a set book in art school and University art history departments," and the Times Literary Supplement savaged it as an example of "that kind of vindictiveness of which only Christians seem capable." Here, for the first time, is the story of the book's impact. In writing his groundbreaking polemic, David Watkin had taken on the entire modernist establishment, tracing it back to Pugin, Viollet-le-Duc, Corbusier, and others who claimed that their chosen style had to be truthful and rational, reflecting society's needs. Any critic of this style was considered antisocial and immoral. Only covertly did the giants of the architectural establishment support the author. Watkin gives an overview of what has happened since the book's publication, arguing that many of the old fallacies still persist. This return to the attack is a revelation for anyone concerned architecture's past and future.