@article{1386676,
      recid = {1386676},
      author = {Van Zanten, David,},
      title = {Designing Paris : the architecture of Duban, Labrouste,  Duc, and Vaudoyer /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) :},
      year = {1987},
      abstract = {Designing Paris explores the revolution in French  architecture that began around 1830 under the leadership of  Flix Duban, Henri Labrouste, Louis Duc, and Lon Vaudoyer.  It shows how these four architects dominated their  profession during the Monarchy of July and the Second  Empire of Napoleon III, producing works of elasticity and  brilliance not often associated with modern notions of the  French Classical tradition, works in which they sought  simultaneously to trace the historical evolution of  architecture and to explore rational innovations in  structure. This reconciliation of historicism and  rationalism, Van Zanten observes, bore fruit in the design  and construction of public monuments of great  individuality, subtlety, and complexity. These became the  generative elements of the city of Paris itself as it was  transformed during the middle of the nineteenth century,  giving rise to the ""Beaux-Arts"" system of training and  design that spread from Paris to the world at large, and to  the professional definition of the architect as a public  servant. The buildings from the years of the Monarchy 6 of  July (1830-1848) that are discussed and illustrated in  detail are Duban's designs for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,  Labrouste's Bibliothque Sainte-Genevive, and Vaudoyer's  Conservatoire des Arts et Mtiers. Three of the monuments  that were erected during the Second Empire of Napoleon III  (who was overthrown in 1870) are the subject of the book's  final chapters: Vaudoyer's Marseilles Cathedral, the only  cathedral erected in France in the nineteenth century;  Duc's Palais de justice on the Ile de la Cit, one of the  centerpieces of Haussmann's Paris; and Labrouste's  Bibliothque Nationale, widely regarded as the most conceptu  ally innovative work of this generation. Designing Paris  discusses the professional, political, and cultural  contexts of these great public monuments and examines their  relation to the works of such figures as Charles Gamier and  Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386676},
}