Symbolic space : French Enlightenment architecture and its legacy / Richard A. Etlin.

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Etlin, Richard A.

Title & Author:

Symbolic space : French Enlightenment architecture and its legacy / Richard A. Etlin.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Description:

xxv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.
1. Paris: The Image of the City -- 2. Revolutionary Space -- 3. Character and Design Method -- 4. The Neoclassical Interlude -- 5. The System of the Home -- 6. Landscapes of Eternity -- 7. The Space of Absence.

Summary:

"Richard A. Etlin demonstrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he reconsiders eighteenth-century French architecture with regard to the ways in which it was informed by symbolic space." "This book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today."--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0226220842 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226220840 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226220850

Subject:

Neoclassicism (Architecture) France.
Architecture France History 18th century.
Symbolism in architecture France.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) Influence.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) France.
Architecture France Histoire 18e siècle.
Symbolisme en architecture France.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Influence.
Architecture
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Symbolism in architecture
Bouwkunst.
Stedenbouw.
Néo-classicisme (architecture) Influence.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Symbolisme en urbanisme.
Architecture 18e siècle France.
Néo-classicisme (architecture)
Architecture 17e siècle France.
France
Architecture Classical style

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108516
Call No.: ID NA1046.5.N4.E85; ID:94-B3023
Status: Available

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