Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds

An exploration of the role of graphic work in the career of one of the nineteenth century’s most influential architects

Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) was nineteenth-century France’s most prominent architect and restorer. This groundbreaking study examines how he used drawing and printmaking as a mode of seeing and thinking and as a means to intensify relationships by capturing the vitality of historical worlds and hidden analogies between human culture and the natural realm.

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