Re-reading the encyclopedia : architectural theory and the formation of the public in late-eighteenth-century France

Author

Lavin, Sylvia

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 1994, Num. 2, Vol. 53, 184-192

ISSN

0037-9808

Abstract (en)

Architecture is commonly considered the most public of the arts, as if inherently, although the concept of the public only began to acquire its modern form in the 18th c. Paradoxically, architecture itself promoted this assumption by helping to construct the public sphere in the same period. Architectural theory played a leading role in this negotiation, as a material product embedded in the publishing industry and in particular reading practices, and as a conceptual apparatus circulating in a new discursive realm. A text from Quatremère de Quincy's Dictionnaire d'architecture (Paris: 1788-1825) that addressed the needs of a public in the making serves here as a vehicle for examination of these larger issues.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- France
• Architecture
• Public
• France
• 1700-1800
• Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome, 1755-1849
• Writings
• Dictionaries

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- France
• Architecture
• Public
• France
• 1700-1800
• Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome, 1755-1849
• Ecrits
• Dictionnaire

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00348846

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