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Zanten, David Theodore Van was born on August 31, 1943 in New York City. Son of John William and Julia Porter (Blossom) Van Zanten.
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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 French Classical tradition, works in which they sought simultaneously to trace the historical evolution of architecture and to explore rational innovations in structure. This reconciliation of historicism and rationalism, Van Zanten observes, bore fruit in the design and construction of public monuments of great individuality, subtlety, and complexity. These became the generative elements of the city of Paris itself as it was transformed during the middle of the nineteenth century, giving rise to the "Beaux-Arts" system of training and design that spread from Paris to the world at large, and to the professional definition of the architect as a public servant. The buildings from the years of the Monarchy 6 of July (1830-1848) that are discussed and illustrated in detail are Duban's designs for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, and Vaudoyer's Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. Three of the monuments that were erected during the Second Empire of Napoleon III (who was overthrown in 1870) are the subject of the book's final chapters: Vaudoyer's Marseilles Cathedral, the only cathedral erected in France in the nineteenth century; Duc's Palais de justice on the Ile de la Cité, one of the centerpieces of Haussmann's Paris; and Labrouste's Bibliothèque Nationale, widely regarded as the most conceptu ally innovative work of this generation. Designing Paris discusses the professional, political, and cultural contexts of these great public monuments and examines their relation to the works of such figures as Charles Gamier and Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. David Van Zanten is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University.
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Building Paris provides an overview of the various architectural services that collectively gave shape to the French capital during a period of explosive growth, from 1830 to 1870. In his analysis of the transformation of Paris during this period, David Van Zanten demonstrates how a succession of royal and imperial monarchs used urban projects as representations of their authority. This study also chronicles the dissolution of the traditional absolutist political structures before the emergence of national consciousness, and amid the splintering of state authority into an array of distinct and competing architectural services. It demonstrates, moreover, how private architectural enterprise, which emerged in this period, was accommodated by government institutions, and how it achieved dominance in the building profession by the end of the century.
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Zanten, David Theodore Van was born on August 31, 1943 in New York City. Son of John William and Julia Porter (Blossom) Van Zanten.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1965; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1970.
Assistant professor, McGill University, Montreal, 1970-1971; from assistant to associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1971-1979; from associate professor to professor, Northwestern University, Chicago, since 1979.
(Building Paris provides an overview of the various archit...)
(Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architect...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
Married Ann Lorenz, September 3, 1973 (deceased August 1982). 1 child, Clare Sallee. Married Martha Wolf, July 14, 1987.
1 child, Nicholas Pockman.