Symbolic Space - French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy

Illustrations Illustration Credits Preface Acknowledgments 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 Notes Index

Summary

Exploring the social and cultural hierarchies established in 18th-century France, this volume illustrates 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 18th-century.

Product details

• Authors: Etlin, Richard A. Etlin, Etlin Richard A.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1996
• EAN: 9780226220857
• ISBN: 978-0-226-22085-7
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 397 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Theory of architecture, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings