L'hotel particulier a' Paris
dal 16/10/2014 al 14/2/2015
Segnalato da
16/10/2014
L'hotel particulier a' Paris
Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin
60 hand-drawn views. Exhibition
The Tchoban Foundation will be showing around 60 hand-drawn views, sections and groundplans of Hotels particuliers which were built in Paris in the first half of the 18th century. They illuminate one of the most well-known characteristics of Parisian architecture which even today defines the French capital internationally. These town houses were built by the most celebrated architects of the time, foremost by Germain Boffrand und Jules Hardouin-Mansart, commissioned by French nobility. Today, primarily ministries and embassies reside in these buildings. The drawings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts' repository are designs for the printing plates for L'Architecture francoise, three volumes published by Jean Mariette between 1727 and 1732. The aim of these books was to show Europe how France excelled in the field of architecture. In order to realise this enterprise, Mariette commissioned young architectural draftsmen, including Jean Michel Chevotet und Pierre-Charles Prevotel, to render perspectives which accurately express the spirit of invention and the daring construction and decoration of each building. Press Conference 17.10.2014 12h. Opening 17th October.