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Chaux (French pronunciation: ⓘ; German: Tscha) is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France. Chaux is located approximately 7.4 km (5 mi) south from the base of the Ballon d'Alsace mountain range, source of the Savoureuse river, 136 km (85 mi) north of Bern , Switzerland and 8.4 km (5 ...
Nov 9, 2016 · The Ideal City takes the plan of the saltworks as a central point for its development, embodying an idea of communal life joined to that of a new industrial urbanism. In the “Ideal city of Chaux” the semicircle becomes a circle and the ten buildings of the Saltworks are completed by many others.
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The Oikema is the informal title for a ‘House of Pleasure‘, and is a part of Claude Nicolas Ledoux’s plan for the Ideal City of Chaux. The phallic-shaped house was to be an integral part of the city. The drawings first appeared in L’architecture considérée sous le rapport de l’art, des moeurs et de la legislation, Tome 1, 1804. There, under the hea...
In 1769, a few years before the French Revolution, Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne published his epistolary essay Le Pornographe. Its subtitle, as rendered in English: A Gentleman’s Ideas on a Project for the Regulation of Prostitutes, Suited to the Prevention of the Misfortunes Caused by the Public Circulation of Women. Restif de la Bretonne ar...
During the French Revolution, a new ruling class arose above the decrepit feudal society in Western Europe: the free bourgeoisie. In terms of architecture, the outcome of this historical crisis was a new concept of classicism as a product of joining Jacobins, the encyclopedic, and good sense. In his 1804 utopian plan for the workers’ city of Chaux,...
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest French neoclassical architecture exponents. He used his knowledge of architectural theory to design not only domestic architecture but also town planning. The French Revolution hampered his career; much of his work was destroyed in the nineteenth century. In 1804, he p...
Jul 17, 2017 · Ledoux's Utopian City of Chaux. From our free online course, “The Architectural Imagination”: https://www.edx.org/course/architectu... Professor Erika Naginksi examines Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's ...
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Sep 21, 2017 · The history of Chaux is accompanied by legends: the Devil and witches held their sabbaths nearby. Some fairies officiated as good or bad depending on the version ... During the War of 1870, and its forest Chaux were the scene of clashes and served as a camp for French soldiers.
The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) is a historical building at Arc-et-Senans in the department of Doubs, eastern France. It is next to the Forest of Chaux and 29.2 kilometres (18.1 miles) to the southwest of Besançon. The architect was Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806), a prominent Parisian architect of the time.
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