Title & Author:

Gazette des architectes et du batiment.

Publication:

[Paris] : A. Morel et cie, 1863-

Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm

Series:

Encyclopédie d'architecture

Notes:
Bimonthly
1. année, no 1-
Ceased with: 2. sér., v. 15, 1886.
Title from caption.
Description based on: 2e année, no. 1 (1864); caption title.
Directors: E. Viollet-le-Duc, fils; E.J. Corroger; A. De Baudot.
Merger of: Encyclopédie d'architecture; and: Gazette du bâtiment; the former of which resumed publication in 1872.
"During the 1850s Viollet-le-Duc and his followers published their buildings and expressed their ideas in the Encyclopedie d'architecure, edited by Victor Calliat and Adolphe Lance, but when in 1862 Viollet-le-Duc together with Prosper Merimee planned an assault on the whole system of architectural education and administration in France, starting with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts itself, it was thought that a more independent, more readily controlled vehicle of propaganda was required. Viollet-le-Duc's own publisher, Balthasar Bance, who was responsible also for the Encyclopedie d'architecure, died in 1862. The firm was taken over then by A. Morel, who had for two years been printing another architectuarl journal, the Gazette du batiment, he was persuated to stop publication of both journals and to replace them with a new one, more sympathetic to the causes of Viollet-le-Duc, the Gazette des architectes et du batiment, edited by Viollet-le-Duc's son, with the assistance of E. Corroyer. Begun in 1863, this journal continued, with a break occasioned by the Franco-Prussian war, until 1886, though it was notably less successful and strident in tone after 1872, when the Encyclopedia d'architecture was started up once again. The interesting years were the first, especially after 1864 when Viollet-le-Duc's most famous disciple, Anatole de Baudot, joined the editorial board, soon afterwards replacing Corroyer. Many of Viollet-le-Duc's buildings and much of his restoration and decorative work was illustrated and discussed in the journal, as were the achievements of the young men who worked under him on the Commission des Monuments Historiques and the Service des Edifices Diocesains, architects such as Paul Abadie, Emile Boeswillwald, Edmond Duthoit, Juste Lisch and Eugene Millet - not to mention Anatole de Baudot himself. Even Viollet-le-Duc's teaching venture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, disaster though it was, was recorded in summaries of his lectures. The Gazette des architectes et du batiment was for a decade at least, the liveliest architectural journal in France"--Documentation from supplier of CaQMCCA copy.
Library copy: 4e année (1866) volume t.p. has pasted ms. slip "Mr. Trotabas a Hyeres i/c relieure".
Encyclopédie d'architecture (OCoLC)9102204
Gazette du bâtiment
Ami des monuments et arts parisiens et français (OCoLC)1780039

Subject:

Architecture Periodicals.
Building Periodicals.
Architecture France Periodicals.
Architecture.
Building.
France.

Form/genre:

periodicals.
Periodicals.

Added entries:

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879.
Corroyer, Edouard, 1837?-1904
Baudot, Anatole de, 1834-1915

Holdings:

Location: Library main periodicals 103591
Call No.: W.G392
Status: Available