Article: Technical nous.(Book review)

JEAN RONDELET: THE ARCHITECT AS TECHNICIAN

By Robin Middleton and Marie-Noelle Baudouin-Matuszek. London: Yale University Press. 2007. [pounds sterling]50

It used to be puzzling when student essays referred to the windows of the Pantheon in Paris having to be 'blocked' because the 'factor of safety' was 'too low': this distortion stemmed from Summerson's Classical Language of Architecture. Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-80) was appointed architect for the new church of Ste-Genevieve in 1755, a building which had walls punctured by windows. From 1791, following a Revolutionary Decree, the church was converted into the Pantheon to commemorate the Great and ...

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