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, Paris cross 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, from Architecture considered in relation to Art, Morals and Legislation, 1804 (partially constructed at Arc et Senans, 1774-78)
C-N Ledoux, Cemetery at Chaux, from Architecture 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
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
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, 2000 Middleton, R., & Watkin, D, Neoclassical and Nineteenth Century Architecture, New York, Abrams, 1980 724/MID Additional reading: Timeless Architecture 1, edited by Dan Cruickshank, London, Architectural Press, 1985 (section on Reform Club) 724.9/TIM The Terragni Atlas, ed. Paulo Rosselli, Milan, Skia, 2004, 720.92/TER Vidler, Anthony, Claude-Nicholas Ledoux: architecture and social reform, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1990, 720.92/LED:VID