Nouveau Traité de toute l’architecture

work by Cordemoy

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influence on Gothic Revival

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: France

    In the Nouveau Traité de toute l’architecture (1714; “New Treatise on All Architecture”) Cordemoy proposed that a new, honest, and economical architecture might be arrived at by abstracting the principles of Gothic construction and applying them in a perfectly regular Classical way. There was no question of…

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