Research Catalog

Title

Symbolic space : French Enlightenment architecture and its legacy / Richard A. Etlin.

Author

Etlin, Richard A.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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Description

xxv, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Richard A. Etlin demonstrates 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 eighteenth century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he reconsiders eighteenth-century French architecture with regard to the ways in which it was informed by symbolic space.
• This book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.

Subjects

• Neoclassicism (Architecture) > Influence
• Architecture > France > History > 18th century
• Neoclassicism (Architecture) > France
• Symbolism in architecture > France

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-222) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0226220842 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

93050194

OCLC

• 29798986
• ocm29798986

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries