008 FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY AND RADICAL NEOCLASSICISM

• Realm of the intellect– Not historic

• Piranesi influence• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

– Writer, “will of people, not the king”

• English Influence

CLAUDE NICHOLAS LEDOUX

• ARCHITECTURE PARLANTE – Forms display function

• SALTWORKS 1775 – 79 and on– Plan, half circle with directors house at center– Symbol of rigid salt production and taxation

• BARRIERES OF PARIS 1785 – 89– Tollgates, Picturesque, no two alike

• IDEAL CITY OF CHAUX– Expansion of Saltworks– No central government, UTOPIA

SALTWORKS

AERIAL VIEW

salines de chaux / chaux-01

         

                                                                                                         

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ENTRANCE GATE

salines de chaux / chaux-02

              

                                                                                                         

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TUSCAN COLUMNS

salines de chaux / chaux-03

              

                                                                                                         

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ROUGH STONES BEYOND

salines de chaux / chaux-04

              

                                                                    

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SOURCE OF SALT - UNDERGROUND STREAMS

DIRECTOR’S HOUSE - AUTHORITY

BARRIERES OF PARIS - PICTURESQUE

EYE OF THE FUTURE

PRISON PROJECT ATAIX EN PROVENCE

IDEAL CITY OF CHAUX

RIVER INSPECTOR’S HOUSE

OIKEMA

OIKEMA - FLOOR PLAN AND SECTION VIEW

ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE

• Architecture of the dead• Architectural Visionary

– French Piranesi

• Potent geometric shapes– Pyramid, cone, cube, sphere, cone

• Shadows– Architectural shadows

CEMETARY

METROPOLITAN LIBRARY

PALACE

RADICAL AND VISIONARY NEOCLASSICISM IN ENGLAND

• Same four periods as in France• George Dance II

– Newgate Prison

• John Soane– Remodelled Bank of England – London House

NEWGATE PRISON