Precedents and design thinking in an age of relativization : the transformations of the normative discourse on the orders of architecture in France between 1650 and 1793 / door Denis Bilodeau.

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Bilodeau, Denis.

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Precedents and design thinking in an age of relativization : the transformations of the normative discourse on the orders of architecture in France between 1650 and 1793 / door Denis Bilodeau.

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xiii, 319 pages : illustrations, plan ; 24 cm

Notes:
1. Introduction -- 2. The development of architectural discourse and the relativization of norms in France between 1500 and 1800 -- 3. The hegemony of antique models in Roland Fréart De Chambray's 'Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne' -- 4. The authority of precedent rule systems and the continuity of the Vitruvian tradition in François Blondel's 'Cours d'architecture' (1675-1683) -- 5. The instrumentalization of precedents in Claude Perrault's 'Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes' -- 6. Precedent rule systems and architectural composition in Charles Augustin D'aviler and Pierre Nativelle's works -- 7. The authority of precedents and the rationalization of architectural expression in Germain Boffrand's 'Livre d'architecture' (1745) -- 8. The norm of harmony and the recasting of precedents in Charles Estienne Briseux's 'Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts' (1752) -- 9. Rules, precedents and critical reasoning in Jacques-François Blondel's didactic works -- 10. The experience the precedents and the principles of architecture in Nicolas Le Camus De Mézière's 'Le génie de l'architecture ou l'analogie de cet art avec nos sensations' -- 11. Precedents, history and the transformation of normative thinking in Julien David Le Roy's 'Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758, 1770) -- 12. Conclusion.
In English; summaries in English and Dutch.

ISBN:

9052692262
9789052692265

Subject:

Architecture Orders.
Architecture France 17th century.
Architecture France 18th century.
Aesthetics, French 17th century.
Aesthetics, French 18th century.
Architecture and literature.
Architectural criticism France History 17th century.
Architectural criticism France History 18th century.
Architecture et littérature.
Architecture Ordres.
Critique d'architecture France Histoire 17e siècle.
Critique d'architecture France Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture France Histoire 17e siècle.
Architecture France Histoire 18e siècle.
Esthétique française 17e siècle.
Esthétique française 18e siècle.
architectural orders (assembly and style)
Architectural criticism
Aesthetics, French
Architecture
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouworden.
Architecture France 16th century.
France

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dissertations.
History
Academic theses
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Theses.

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Location: Library main 132345
Call No.: ID NA2810.B5; ID:97-B2696
Status: Available

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