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(Architecture). Laugier (Marc Antoine). "Essay on architecture". Paris, chez Duchesne 1753. In-12 bound in full contemporary basane. Spine with nerves, paper title-piece (partly missing). Ex libris in the old pen on the title page. (XIV) (1 ff) 293 pages. Table. Edges a little lightened. Scattered rubbing. A solidly bound copy. Rare first edition. Born in 1713 in Manosque, died in Paris in 1769, Jesuit and court preacher, the abbé Laugier is mostly known for his works of architectural theory and criticism. Laugier proposes to return, against Vitruvius which he judges too marked by the culture of his time to be able to express nature, to another model which for him expresses the most original nature of architecture: what he calls the primitive hut, which reduces the building to its most elementary components, pillar, beam, opening.
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(Architecture). Laugier (Marc Antoine). "Essay on architecture". Paris, chez Duchesne 1753. In-12 bound in full contemporary basane. Spine with nerves, paper title-piece (partly missing). Ex libris in the old pen on the title page. (XIV) (1 ff) 293 pages. Table. Edges a little lightened. Scattered rubbing. A solidly bound copy. Rare first edition. Born in 1713 in Manosque, died in Paris in 1769, Jesuit and court preacher, the abbé Laugier is mostly known for his works of architectural theory and criticism. Laugier proposes to return, against Vitruvius which he judges too marked by the culture of his time to be able to express nature, to another model which for him expresses the most original nature of architecture: what he calls the primitive hut, which reduces the building to its most elementary components, pillar, beam, opening.
