"Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution."

"Presenting both a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book otters a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the cast facade of the Louvre, the Place Loui...

The classical tradition in architecture.

The classical tradition in architecture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

c2007.

0415774632 (hbk.) :

9780415774635 (hbk.) :

720.94409033