Theorist
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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Details
- Nationality
- French
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- influenced Frank Lloyd Wright
- influenced Le Corbusier
- proposed Stylistic restoration
- developed Structural Rationalism
- associated with Gottfried Semper
- developed Stylistic restoration
- authored Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française
- proposed Structural Rationalism
- influenced Otto Wagner
Referenced by
- Camillo Boito critiqued
- John Ruskin opposes
Sources
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Entretiens sur l'architecture (Discourses on Architecture). James R. Osgood, 1875.
- Martin Bressani. Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Ashgate, 2014.
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène. Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle. B. Bance, 1854.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Eugène Viollet-le-Duc." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/eugene-viollet-le-duc/. Accessed September 1, 2026.