Line and Shadow. Architectural Drawings. 16th-19th Century.
BNF| N° d'inventaire | 31444 |
| Format | 24 x 28 |
| Détails | 224 p., 160 ill., paperback |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782717728293 |
Architectural drawing is a vast and diverse field. Architects practice it to acquire an intimate knowledge of buildings and develop their ability to imagine them; they use it as a medium for their exchanges with the various building trades; they use it as a means of reaching the public and decision-makers, sometimes even elevating it to the rank of a work of art.
Signed by the most brilliant architect designers – from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau to Etienne Louis Boullée, from Gilles Marie Oppenord to Jean Jacques Lequeu, from Charles Percier to Henri Labrouste, from Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to Charles Garnier – the 160 drawings presented in this work retrace a history of French architecture from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. century.
In a field where the major challenge is to present a building in anticipation, these drawings bear witness to the architects' shared ambition to achieve an architectural and urban ideal. Like a writer's manuscript, they illuminate a creative process, with its hesitations, corrections, and revisions. Unlike text, however, they possess the power and autonomy of figures, which "speak" to the eye immediately. They thus offer us an experience that is both sensitive and intellectual, expressing their authors' relationship to space, matter, color, and the intelligence of structures.
THE 2020 Art Book Award was awarded to Pauline Chougnet and Jean-Philippe Garric for this work.
Architectural drawing is a vast and diverse field. Architects practice it to acquire an intimate knowledge of buildings and develop their ability to imagine them; they use it as a medium for their exchanges with the various building trades; they use it as a means of reaching the public and decision-makers, sometimes even elevating it to the rank of a work of art.
Signed by the most brilliant architect designers – from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau to Etienne Louis Boullée, from Gilles Marie Oppenord to Jean Jacques Lequeu, from Charles Percier to Henri Labrouste, from Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to Charles Garnier – the 160 drawings presented in this work retrace a history of French architecture from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. century.
In a field where the major challenge is to present a building in anticipation, these drawings bear witness to the architects' shared ambition to achieve an architectural and urban ideal. Like a writer's manuscript, they illuminate a creative process, with its hesitations, corrections, and revisions. Unlike text, however, they possess the power and autonomy of figures, which "speak" to the eye immediately. They thus offer us an experience that is both sensitive and intellectual, expressing their authors' relationship to space, matter, color, and the intelligence of structures.
THE 2020 Art Book Award was awarded to Pauline Chougnet and Jean-Philippe Garric for this work.