François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

by Gerbino Anthony and Anthony Gerbino

First director of the Acad mie royale d'architecture, Fran ois Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today.

Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the "new science"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415491991
• ISBN13: 9780415491990
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"