| Unit name | Architecture and Landscape in Ancien Regime France |
|---|---|
| Unit code | FRENM2006 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Calder |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
s Students need to have a command of the French language which enables them to study materials in the original |
| Co-requisites |
s None |
| School/department | Department of French |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Architecture and Landscape in Ancien Rigime France will examine the built environment in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It will consider buildings both internally, externally, as works of art, as structures and as cultural symbols. The unit will also pay particular attention to the gardens created around buildings throughout the period. The unit will look first at the adoption of the classical rules of architecture and at the principles which underpin the French formal garden. The unit will then analyse the radical transformation which took place in French buildings and gardens between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, as the baroque style of classicism and formalism gave way to the new styles of the rococo and the picturesque. The unit will include analysis of key literary texts associated with ideas of architecture, space, landscape and taste during the Ancien Rigime.
