Leon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry

by Barry Bergdoll

L & e?on Vaudoyer(1803-1872) was, with Felix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc, one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architects who challenged both the authority and the philosophy of the French Academy in the years around 1830. The group's insistence on the relevance of French medieval and Renaissance architecture to contemporary design has earned them a reputation as prophets of the historicist point of view that has come to be a fundamental theme...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262023806
• ISBN13: 9780262023801
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.3" x 10.3"