Fabrice Moulin, Embellir, bâtir, demeurer. L’architecture dans la littérature des Lumières

Abstract

Of the many historical subjects whose study has been stunted by disciplinary tunnel-vision, architecture surely must rank high. A practice that involves politics, economics, social relations, aesthetics, philosophy, spatial experience, and that is a constant presence in everybody’s life, architecture was for decades the hostage of architectural historians and architects who approached it as an aesthetic-technical practice where the initial design conception was the principal object of interes...