Claude Nicholas Ledoux, Architect, France, Buildings, Design, Projects, Office

Claude Nicholas Ledoux - French Architect : Information

Late 18th Century French Architecture

Claude Ledoux - Key Projects Major Project by Ledoux Salines de Chaux, Arc-et-Senans, France Masterplan + buildings planning Ledoux - the Architect Claude Nicholas Ledoux 1736-1806 Born in Dormans-sur-Marne, France; died in Paris, France Ledoux buildings are characterised by a strongly articulated Mannerist style, using the Classical Style with a similar flexibility to Piranesi and Boullee. Unlike earlier Italian Mannerist buildings his work is simpler and bolder with Classical columns using repetitive square sections being a recurring motif. Paris Building by Claude Ledoux The newly renovated Rotonde de la Villette. Designed by Claude Ledoux as a tollhouse in the 1780s, the Rotonde is considered by many as a precursor of modern architecture. It was restored in 2010 and now houses a café-restaurant, thus allowing the public into the building. Rotonde de la Villette - designed by Claude Ledoux as a tollhouse: photos : Rebecca Breun Architecture by Claude Ledoux Ledoux Buildings Designs, chronological Portes de Paris : Tollhouses (Barrières) 1785-89 House, Besançon, France 1775-79 Theatre, Besançon, France 1771-73/5 Chateau for Madame du Barry, Louveciennes, France 1771-73 Pavilion Hocquart, France 1764-70 Château de Bénouville, Normandy, France 1770 More Claude Ledoux Architecture online soon

Claude Ledoux architect - Practice Information

Claude Ledoux - Education

Jacques François Blondel Architectural School Paris
Ledoux studied under J. F. Blondel & L.F. Trouard

Ledoux - key Buildings in more detail

Salines de Chaux
Saltworks settlement with radial plan of housing centred on the salt extraction
factory.

Portes de Paris
1785-90
Sixty tollhouses designed with fifty being built and only four remaining. Key Tollhouse - Barrière de la Villette.

Ledoux - Book

L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation
1804
Architecture Considered with Respect to Art, Customs, and Legislation

Claude Ledoux : French Architect



French Architecture

Classical architect: Christopher Wren

Historic Architecture

picture © Adrian Welch

World Architects

Neoclassical architect: CR Cockerell

Neoclassical Architecture

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