Exhibitions : review : "Viollet-le-Duc : les visions d'un architecte"

Reviews the exhibition "Viollet-le-Duc : les visions d'un architecte" ("Viollet-le-Duc : "the visions of an architect"), which was on view at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, in Paris from 20 November 2014-9 March 2015. Organized to...

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Published in:Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2015-09, Vol.74 (3), p.386-387
Main Author: Zirnheld, Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Reviews the exhibition "Viollet-le-Duc : les visions d'un architecte" ("Viollet-le-Duc : "the visions of an architect"), which was on view at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, in Paris from 20 November 2014-9 March 2015. Organized to mark the bicentennial of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's birth as well as to showcase an important archival donation, the show challenged received notions of the rationalist practitioner rooted in positivist thought and natural science. An enormous assembly of drawings, objects, personal writings, and ephemera returned Viollet to his romantic roots and centered his oeuvre on a lifelong series of hallucinatory visions. [Revised Publication Abstract]
ISSN:0037-9808