Abstract:"Space and the longue durée : Julien-David Leroy and the History of Architecture", by Christopher Drew Armstrong In the 18th century, the idea that architecture could be created by the fusion of classical and Gothic principles was a major innovation in French theory ; Jacques-Germain Soufflot's church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris came to be regarded as the embodiment of this ideal. The premise that such a fusion was a valid approach to design seems to have been questioned, however, by the theorist Julien-David… Show more
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