Antoine Picon, Picon Antoine

French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a unique insight to the teaching and practice of architects and engineers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 868g
• ISBN-13: 9780521123693
• ISBN-10: 0521123690
• Artikelnr.: 28108707

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. General Remarks
2. The classical tradition
3. The impact of the Enlightenment on architecture
4. 'Towards a classical architecture' Jacques-Francois Blondel and the 'Cours d'architecture'
5. The engineers' 'system'
6. The principles of training and the economy of knowledge
7. Stability and construction
8. Pierre Patte and the concept of the rational town
9. A productive countryside
10. From the revolutionary 'Genius' to Neo-classicism
Conclusion
Appendix
Biographical
Notes.