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Viollet-le-Duc Eug?ne Emmanuel . 1814--79, French architect and leader of the Gothic Revival in France, noted for his dictionary of French architecture (1854--68) and for his restoration of medieval buildings How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But of course he does not merely reject the excesses of modernism, he allies himself to some of the alternatives proposed by Ruskin in Stones of Venice, Alberti in his Ten Books of Architecture, and Viollet-le-Duc in his two volumes of lectures, as well as the modern designer Leon Krier, who "laid down the simple principles that would enable Poundbury [the modern country village envisioned by the Prince of Wales] to build itself. With Robert Smirke (architect of the British Museum) following in 1853, Viollet-le-Duc in 1864 and William Butterfield in 1884, the annual award has only been suspended twice: first in 1901 following Victoria's death, and again in 1924 when it was declined by the nominee. Rather like Viollet-le-Duc, whose designs for iron tension-strutted masonry domes share an unexpected similarity with the domical vaults in the Lisbon Ismaili Centre and the New Delhi Parliamentary Library (as pointed out by Peter Davey in AR October 2002), Rewal's passage a l'acte sometimes lacks a certain lightness of touch. |
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