Grids and Rational Architecture. North Italian Lanscape

Grids and Rational Architecture

North Italian Lanscape

J A Gabriel, Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde), Paris, 1763-

Ste Geneviève, Paris (Le Panthéon), architect J-G Soufflot, 1757-89

Julien David Leroy,, development of Christian church type, 1764

Comédie Francaise (Theatre de l’Odeon), Paris,architects J-M Peyre & Charles de Wailly, 1776

Théatre de l’Odéon, Pariscross section

Odéon quarter, Paris

Grand Théatre, Bordeaux, architect Victor Louis,

1773-80

Grand Théatre, Bordeaux, architect Victor Louis, 1773-80

Jacques Gondoin, School of Surgery, Paris, 1769-74

Jacques Gondoin, School of Surgery, Paris, 1769-74

Jacques Gondoin, School of Surgery, Paris, 1769-74

view of the Anatomy Theatre

Sir William Chambers, Somerset House, London, 1776

Sir William Chambers, Somerset House, London, 1776

Sir William Chambers, Somerset House, London, 1776

The Navy Stair

J-L Boullée, Cenotaph to Newton, c.1784

J-L Boullée, Interior of the Metropole, c.1781

C-N Ledoux, Ideal City of Chaux, fromArchitecture considered in relation to Art, Morals and Legislation, 1804 (partially constructed at

Arc et Senans, 1774-78)

C-N Ledoux, Cemetery at Chaux, fromArchitecture considered in relation to Art, Morals

and Legislation, 1804

C-N Ledoux, House for the Directors of the River Loüe, from

Architecture considered in relation to Art, Morals and Legislation, 1804

J N L Durand, Ensembles d’edifices (compositions of buildings) from Précis des Leçons, 1802-05

J N L Durand, Courtyards, from Précis des Leçons, 1802-05

A mule shop (textile factory), cast iron frame construction, England c.1820

Sir Charles Barry, The Reform Club, Pall Mall, London, 1839

Reform Club, plans

Reform Club, Section

Le Corbusier, Five Points of the New Architecture, 1923

Le Corbusier, Villa Stein-De

Monzie, Garches, 1926

Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Como, Italy, 1932

Casa del Fascio, plans and section

Casa del Fascio elevations

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Kroller-Muller House, 1912

Mies van der Rohe, Lake Shore Drive Apartments under construction, c.1949

Charles and Ray Eames, Eames House, Santa Monica, CA, 1949

Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin for Paris, 1925

Plainview, Texas

Milton Keynes Central plan, c.1970

Milton Keynes, Shopping Centre

Reading List on brief:Bergdoll, B, European Architecture 1750-1890, 2000Middleton, R., & Watkin, D, Neoclassical and Nineteenth Century Architecture, New York, Abrams, 1980724/MIDAdditional reading:Timeless Architecture 1, edited by Dan Cruickshank, London, Architectural Press, 1985 (section on Reform Club) 724.9/TIMThe Terragni Atlas, ed. Paulo Rosselli, Milan, Skia, 2004, 720.92/TERVidler, Anthony, Claude-Nicholas Ledoux: architecture and social reform, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1990, 720.92/LED:VID