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Barry Bergdoll Martin Bressani

Viollet-le-Duc

Drawing Worlds

Barry Bergdoll,  Martin Bressani

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English
Yale University Press
25 November 2025
Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Architectural structure & design; Architecture: professional practice
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.

Making sense of Viollet-le-Duc's vast graphic production, scholars consider his imaginative recreations of the most minute aspects of medieval warfare; his approach to the practical tasks of restoring very complex medieval monuments; his experiments in new means of publicly diffusing architectural ideas in the yearly Parisian salons, in didactic manuals, and in children's books; and even a fantastic project to restitute the original structure of the formidable massif of Mont Blanc. The gamut of techniques employed by Viollet-le-Duc stretches from large painted tableaux to lithographs, steel engravings, woodcuts, gouaches, tracings, and full-scale details.

This generously illustrated volume offers an unparalleled window into the architect's working process and explores how his mastery of the graphic arts helped him harness the power of the press to disseminate architectural knowledge and spread ideologies based on antagonism, most notably nationalism and racism.

Distributed for Bard Graduate Center

Exhibition Schedule:

Bard Graduate Center, New York

(January 28–May 24, 2026)
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 203mm, 
ISBN:   9780300284485
ISBN 10:   0300284489
Pages:   426
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Martin Bressani is William Macdonald Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University.

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