The bi-centralized city : creating an alternative to the baroque plan of Stockholm
- Author
- Bjurström, Per
- Document type
- Article (journal)
- Language
English
- Source
- Bulletin - Nationalmuseum. 1992, Num. 1, Vol. 16, 48-58, 10 ill.; 5 plans
- ISSN
- 0347-7835
- Abstract (en)
- Author contrasts the Baroque city plan of Stockholm of the 2d half of the 17th c. with the Neo-classical and picturesque plan of the 1780s and 1790s for a new royal palace and cultural center. Created in an English park three miles north of the city at Haga, the palace ground was designed by Fredrik Magnus Piper and Louis Jean Desprez, an architect and contemporary of Pierre l'Enfant at the Royal Academy in Paris. Bjurström argues that King Gustav III's plan, and l'Enfant's monumental city plan of Washington, DC, are worth study as they offered similar design solutions for a new political order that encouraged the non-aristocratic classes. In spite of the patronage of the king, the Stockholm plan shares the same artistic origin as the plan for Washington which was the French architectural academy of the 3d quarter of the 18th c., the milieu of the revolutionary architects.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier19950101-00312078
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