Jean-Louis de Cordemoy
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Francesca Valensise
Abstract
First published in Paris in 1706, the ›Nouveau Traité de toute l’architecture ou l’art de Bastir‹ by Jean-Louis de Cordemoy marked a provocatively unprecedented point of view in the panorama of 18th century architectural theories. Through a critical revision of the excesses of the Baroque, which was considered the last rhetorical public manifestation of the Ancien Régime, and in the name of a logical renewal of design, the work immediately became the focus of a broad cultural debate, which continued until 1713 in a polemic with Amédée François Frézier. Revolutionary in its challenge to the Vitruvian orthodoxy, the Nouveau Traité developed the search for a Greek-Gothic architectural ideal, which, in a comparison between classical and modern, was realized in the querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and developed in France in the effort to define a ›national‹ architectural style. As precursor and inspiration for the aesthetics of Marc-Antoine Laugier, Cordemoy subjected adornment to the laws of bienséance and was a harbinger of the modern functionalist language – the principles of simplification of surfaces, a rigorous volumetric study that anticipated what in later decades would result in stereometric purity of Enlightenment experiments.
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Fig. 1– 4: Polytechnic University of Turin, Faculty of Architecture — Fig. 5: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/1630_Plan_de_Tavernier.jpg — Fig. 6: http://books.google.fr./books?id=UssDAAAAMAAj&hl — Fig. 7: Middleton 1962, 308 — Fig. 10 –12: Middleton 1963, 17 after page 120 — Fig. 8, 9, 13: Private collection Francesca Valensise
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Architekturzeichnung und ihre Rolle beim Entwurf komplexer Werksteinkonstruktionen in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
- Das Turnierhaus am Münchner Hofgarten
- Jean-Louis de Cordemoy
- Sichtbackstein des 19. Jahrhunderts
- Leo von Klenzes Konzept für die Gestaltung des Hauptmarktes von Athen
- Projecting Stars, Triangles and Concrete
- Zbąszynek (Neu Bentschen)
- Das Landhaus des Marqués de Murrieta bei Córdoba
- Der Wettbewerb für den Wiederaufbau Am Steintor in Goch am Niederrhein
- Buchbesprechung
- Werkspuren. Materialverarbeitung und handwerkliches Wissen im antiken Bauwesen
- Architecture as Propaganda in twentieth-century totalitarian Regimes. History and Heritage
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Architekturzeichnung und ihre Rolle beim Entwurf komplexer Werksteinkonstruktionen in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
- Das Turnierhaus am Münchner Hofgarten
- Jean-Louis de Cordemoy
- Sichtbackstein des 19. Jahrhunderts
- Leo von Klenzes Konzept für die Gestaltung des Hauptmarktes von Athen
- Projecting Stars, Triangles and Concrete
- Zbąszynek (Neu Bentschen)
- Das Landhaus des Marqués de Murrieta bei Córdoba
- Der Wettbewerb für den Wiederaufbau Am Steintor in Goch am Niederrhein
- Buchbesprechung
- Werkspuren. Materialverarbeitung und handwerkliches Wissen im antiken Bauwesen
- Architecture as Propaganda in twentieth-century totalitarian Regimes. History and Heritage
