Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc, 1814-1879

ISBN-13: 9780754633402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 624 str.

Martin Bressani

Opis

Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonne de l'architecture franAaise du XIe au XVIe siecle and Entretiens sur l'architecture, but also studies on warfare, geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc's complex intellectual development, mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past, showing how restoration, in all its layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his life journey, we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.

Spis treści

Introduction: the architectural topography of historical imagination Part I: Contingency in the historiographies of the English reformation, French revolution and era of the industrial revolution in England 1. Contingency and artifice 2. Encounter and utterance 3. Milieu and movement 4. Figure and event Part II: Writing history as a city 5. Proximity and distance 6. The revolutionary encounter field: Paris c.1789-94 and other stories 7. Recollection and re-enactment 8. Morphologies of feeling Appendix A: A notation for the architectural topographic sequencing of texts Appendix B: Synopsis of Cinderella Appendix C: Additional architectural topographic sequences from Cinderella Appendix D: Search terms and categories used in toponemic analysis references index

O autorze

Martin Bressani is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.