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<b>Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians.</b> <p><i>Designing Paris</i> explores the revolution in French architecture that began around 1830 under the leadership of Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, Louis Duc, and Léon Vaudoyer. It shows how these four architects dominated their profession during the Monarchy of July and the Second Empire of Napoleon III, producing works of elasticity and brilliance not often associated with modern notions of the French Classical tradition, works in which they sought simultaneously to trace the historical evolution of architecture and to explore rational innovations in structure.</p> <p>This reconciliation of historicism and rationalism, Van Zanten observes, bore fruit in the design and construction of public monuments of great individuality, subtlety, and complexity. These became the generative elements of the city of Paris itself as it was transformed during the middle of the nineteenth century, giving rise to the "Beaux-Arts" system of training and design that spread from Paris to the world at large, and to the professional definition of the architect as a public servant.</p> <p>The buildings from the years of the

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Author

David Van Zanten; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262220316

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Art, Arts