Main entry:

Baudez, Basile, 1974- author. aut

Title & Author:

A civic utopia : architecture and the city in France, 1765-1837 / Basile Baudez & Nicholas Olsberg ; editor, Markus Lähteenmäki.

Publication:

[London, England] : Drawing Matter Studies, 2016.
London : PUSH
©2016

Description:

6 unnumbered pages, i, 28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 34 x 24 cm

Notes:
First statement of responsibility from dust jacket. Second statement of responsibility from page 32.
Published to accompany an exhibition held by Drawing Matter in collaboration with The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 8, 2016-January 8, 2017.
"Edition of 500."--Page 32.
Leaves of plates are mostly 30 x 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
(from table of contents) Introduction -- Law, order and the beautiful / by Nicholas Olsberg -- Case studies / by Basile Baudez.

Summary:

Expanding upon a selection of architectural drawings from the exhibition that it accompanies, this book traces how a new model of the modern French city emerged in Enlightenment-era France. Architectural drawings of public buildings and public spaces served as models for the expression of an ordered and open civic life as the foundation of an ideal polity.

ISBN:

9780995630901 (paperback)
0995630909 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural drawing France Paris.
Architectural drawing
Buildings
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
France Paris

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Olsberg, R. Nicholas, author.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, host institution.

Title embossed on front wrapper (continued from back wrapper): Utopia

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294166
Call No.: BIB 239532
Status: Available