The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This book analyses the meaning of this gradual mutual isolation, the consequences of which can still be felt at a variety of differ...
The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This book analyses the meaning of this gradual mutual isolation, the consequences of which can still be felt at a variety of different levels, and offers a unique insight in English to the teaching and practice of architects such as Jacques-Francois Blondel and Pierre Patte, and engineers such as Jean-Rodolphe Perronet and Gaspard-Riche de Prony. The text of the book is clear and easily comprehensible, and presents a fully accessible account of this key period in the development of architectural achievement and debate.
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An engineer's first duty was therefore to subordinate himself and it was this which enabled him to sublimate the still-latent conflict between the 'artist', who conceived of buildings, and the corps, which financed them, between the isolated project and the overall scale of the -territory. The administration of the Ponts et Chaussees represented more than the sum of its individual members; it could be compared to an ' ideal society, a genuine 'architecture of reason', opposed to the prejudice surrounding it. (查看原文)
0 有用 maimaimaimai 2013-02-21 01:37:56
"A Productive Countryside," pp. 211-255.the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees法国和世界上第一所工程师学校
0 有用 FoundObject 2020-12-06 00:49:58
从启蒙时期到新古典主义期间古典建筑知识的瓦解。新古典主义不是回归古典，而是拥抱一种工程师式的思维，将建筑作为发展的辅助。