008 FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY AND RADICAL NEOCLASSICISM Realm of the intellect –Not historic Piranesi influence Jean-Jacques Rousseau –Writer, “will of people, not the king” English Influence
CLAUDE NICHOLAS LEDOUX ARCHITECTURE PARLANTE –Forms display function SALTWORKS 1775 – 79 and on –Plan, half circle with directors house at center –Symbol of rigid salt production and taxation BARRIERES OF PARIS 1785 – 89 –Tollgates, Picturesque, no two alike IDEAL CITY OF CHAUX –Expansion of Saltworks –No central government, UTOPIA
SALTWORKS
AERIAL VIEW
salines de chaux / chaux-01 chaux-01.jpg ENTRANCE GATE
salines de chaux / chaux-02 chaux-02.jpg TUSCAN COLUMNS
salines de chaux / chaux-03 chaux-03.jpg ROUGH STONES BEYOND
salines de chaux / chaux-04 chaux-04.jpg SOURCE OF SALT - UNDERGROUND STREAMS
DIRECTOR’S HOUSE - AUTHORITY
BARRIERES OF PARIS - PICTURESQUE
EYE OF THE FUTURE
PRISON PROJECT AT AIX EN PROVENCE
IDEAL CITY OF CHAUX
RIVER INSPECTOR’S HOUSE
OIKEMA
OIKEMA - FLOOR PLAN AND SECTION VIEW
ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE Architecture of the dead Architectural Visionary –French Piranesi Potent geometric shapes –Pyramid, cone, cube, sphere, cone Shadows –Architectural shadows
CEMETARY
METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
PALACE
RADICAL AND VISIONARY NEOCLASSICISM IN ENGLAND Same four periods as in France George Dance II –Newgate Prison John Soane –Remodelled Bank of England –London House
NEWGATE PRISON