Claude-Nicolas LeDoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution. Second and Expanded Edition

by Anthony Vidler

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux's influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects - the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux - reveal the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035620814
• ISBN13: 9783035620818
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 168 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary