Autore
Brancasi, Irene

Titolo
Rappresentazione e costruzione urbana nella cultura tardo settecentesca, da Parigi a Washington
Periodico
Intersezioni
Anno: 2014 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 189 - Pagina finale: 224

This essay focuses on the representation of the city at the end of the "Ancien Régime" together with the cultural contact linking the French urban conception with the North American one. It is indeed possible to recognize a line connecting the two architectural approaches, concerning the stylistic language but also implying a renewed notion of architecture as political and social art. In particular, the theories of Thomas Jefferson and Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, both of them close to the Paris background and involved in the Washington D.C. foundation, will be observed as a considerable case of architectural thought, whose purpose is the plan of a functional city, designed in order to stand for the new nation.



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