French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
- Paperback
- ISBN:9780521123693
- Publication date:January 2010
- 452pages
- Dimensions: 246 x 189 mm
- Weight: 0.8kg
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The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This book analyses the meaning of this gradual mutual isolation.
