[PDF] Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field (Design Briefs) by From Princeton Architectural Press in Arts-Photography

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Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism; Eugegrave;ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age; a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonneacute; de lrsquo;architecture franAtilde;sect;aise du XIe au XVIe siegrave;cle and Entretiens sur lrsquo;architecture; but also studies on warfare; geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Ducrsquo;s complex intellectual development; mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past; showing how restoration; in all its layered meaning; shaped his outlook. Through his life journey; we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.