Main entry:

Middleton, Robin.

Title & Author:

Jean Rondelet : the architect as technician / Robin Middleton and Marie-Noëlle Baudouin-Matuszek.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, ©2007.

Description:

360 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 20 cm

Notes:
"Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-348) and index.

Summary:

"Though engineers, architects and even landscape designers had staked out fields of operation for themselves in the seventeenth century such professions were in flux well into the eighteenth century. The same man might still operate in all of these fields. But by the middle of the century professional boundaries were becoming clearer. Jean Rondelet took up his career in 1770, working for Jacques-Germain Soufflot, architect of the most conspicuous and structurally daring church of the period, Sainte-Genevieve, now known as the Pantheon, in Paris. Rondelet assumed the role of technical expert, taking on more and more control not only of the structural design but of the site organisation as well. And he was to dedicate his life to these tasks. For the church became a focus of structural debate that became increasingly partisan and acrimonious when faults in the structure threatened a total collapse of the dome. Architects and engineers found distinct voices for themselves in the ensuing uproar. Rondelet emerged, not quite the victor, but the man commissioned to ensure structural stability." "This book, the first devoted to Rondelet, tells the story of the most celebrated architectural debate of the century. It also examines Rondetlet's career in full, his publications and his long lasting influence on the training of architects and the administration of architectural practice in France. More than any other architect Rondelet represents the era of change during which the foundations for modern architectural theory and practice were laid."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents only
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
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Publisher description
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

0300115679 (alk. paper)
9780300115673 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Rondelet, Jean Baptiste, 1734-1829 Criticism and interpretation.
Rondelet, Jean Baptiste, 1734-1829.
Architecture France 18th century.
Architecture France 19th century.
Architecture France Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture France Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture.
France.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Baudouin-Matuszek, M. N.
Annie Burr Lewis Fund.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252575
Call No.: BIB 182299
Status: Available