Designing Paris

Designing Paris. 288 pages. Marketplace offer. Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians. Designing Paris explores the revolution in French architecture that began around 1830 under the leadership of Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, Louis Duc, and Léon 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…ISBN 0262220318