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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806299603321

Autore

Gerbino Anthony

Titolo

Francois Blondel : architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution / / Anthony Gerbino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-69487-7

0-203-71806-2

1-283-88575-1

1-135-69480-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

The classical tradition in architecture

Altri autori (Persone)

BlondelFrancois <1618-1686.>

Disciplina

720.92

Soggetti

Architectural practice - France - History - 17th century

Classicism in architecture - France

Architecture - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mathematician, engineer, courtier -- The rebirth of French classicism I : the Académie Royale d'Architecture -- The rebirth of French classicism II : Paris -- Architects and mathematicians -- Architecture versus erudition : the Perrault-Blondel debate revisited -- Architecture and the Encyclopedia : Blondel as reader and collector -- Conclusion : Blondel's Nachleben.

Sommario/riassunto

First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the ""new science"" of the seventeenth century. The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarshi