The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc Readings and Commentary

These readings carefully selected form the entire range of Viollet-le-Duc's work make available the historical insights and practical principles of one of the most imaginative and inspiring architectural theorists of the modern era. M.F. Hearn has culled from Viollet-le Duc's books on architecture the passages in which his major ideas about the theory of architecture are most cogently expressed.