| Title |
The Rationalistic Features Represented in Viollet-le-Duc’s Architectural Theory |
| Keywords |
Viollet-le-Duc ; dialectics ; rationalism ; design methodology ; structural rationalism ; restoration |
| Abstract |
The aim of this study lies on the deeper understanding of Viollet-le-Duc's architectural theory through his dialectic thoughts on history, through examining by what forms the rationalistic features of Viollet-le-Duc's theory was presented in his design methodology.
Viollet-le-Duc, who maintained and based his own architectural theory on the rational thinking system, had already presented the theory of rational design long before modern architects who sought to systematize the design methodology scientifically. Various works of his own designing and the buildings restored by him are undoubtedly based on this rational design methodology applying Cartesian's way of thinking. And also like the human history repeating evolution, they are the very outcomes of efforts trying to create his own logical expression considering things as the process of dialectical evolution.
His rationalistic thinking developed into the ideology of freedom of 'While nature is only a matter with a good reserve waiting eternally for the transformation, history is the true image of eternity', and eventually formed the architectural theory full of enthusiasm towards the new architecture. |