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Article: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution.(Claude-Nicolas Ledoux)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Nikolaus Pevsner described Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) as the boldest and most extreme French Revolutionary architect. Known to many for his visionary engravings--such as his coup d'oeil of the theatre of Besancon, shown here--his utopian visions still have resonance today. In Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution by Anthony Vidler (Basel: Birkhauser, 2006, [pounds sterling]23), Ledoux's influential ...
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