Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds is the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to the life and work of visionary architect, designer, and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879). Bringing together nearly 150 drawings and objects, the majority of which have never before been on view in the U.S., the exhibition highlights Viollet-le-Duc’s prolific work as a draftsman and the […]
French Ornament in the Nineteenth Century; A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche and Estelle Thibault
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche (Barnard College) and Estelle Thibault (École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Belleville), moderated by Martin Bressani (McGill University) Inspired by thirteenth-century gothic architecture, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc understood ornament as the medium through which the vital energies of the living world became visible. Ornament distilled the anatomical logic of the plants or […]