Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
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The Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle is a seminal work by Eug\u00e8ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, a prominent French Gothic Revival architect and restorer. Published between 1854 and 1868, this multi-volume dictionary provided detailed structural information and design analysis of French medieval architecture.12
Viollet-le-Duc's work was instrumental in sustaining the Gothic Revival movement, offering vital visual and intellectual inspiration. While he aimed to restore buildings in their original style, his later restorations often incorporated his own designs, a practice that has drawn criticism from modern archaeologists for potentially obscuring original forms. His theories on rational architectural design connected Romantic revivalism with 20th-century Functionalism.13
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