The Architecture of the French Enlightenment
The Architecture of the French Enlightenment

Author: Allan Braham

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780520067394

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Allan Braham's comprehensive treatment of this brilliant and complex period introduces the reader to the major buildings, architects, and architectural patrons of the day. At the same time, it explores the broader determinants of architectural production: the rapid economic expansion of Paris and the main provincial centers and the increasing demand for improved public amenities--theaters, schools, markets, and hospitals. This generously illustrated book provides a vivid commentary on society and manners in pre-Revolutionary France.

Symbolic Space
Symbolic Space

Author: Richard A. Etlin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996-12-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780226220857

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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.

Writting of the Walls
Writting of the Walls

Author: Vidler

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. The author redefines the relationship between architecture and society during the period and looks at the reactions of contemporary architects.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Author: Daniel Brewer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1107021480

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Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Author: Daniel Brewer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1316194329

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The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from philosophy, religion and literature, to art, medicine, anthropology and architecture, to analyse the French Enlightenment. Each essay presents a concise view of an important aspect of the French Enlightenment, discussing its defining characteristics, internal dynamics and historical transformations. The Companion discusses the most influential reinterpretations of the Enlightenment that have taken place during the last two decades, reinterpretations that both reflect and have contributed to important re-evaluations of received ideas about the Enlightenment and the early modern period more generally.