La Saline d'Arc et Senans = Royal Saltworks of Arc-Et-Senans /
"At the end of the 18th century, Claude Nicolas Ledoux built a monumental new salt factory for the King of France. It was an aesthetic revolution, an innovative industrial site and the structuring core for an ideal city that never came into being. When resources for the salt mine at Franche-Com...
| Uniform Title: | Saline d'Arc et Senans. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Dubbed in English from the original French. |
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[France] :
ARTE France,
[2003]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Films on Demand) |
| Summary: | "At the end of the 18th century, Claude Nicolas Ledoux built a monumental new salt factory for the King of France. It was an aesthetic revolution, an innovative industrial site and the structuring core for an ideal city that never came into being. When resources for the salt mine at Franche-Comté were dwindling, Ledoux channeled the brine down to a river valley adjacent to the Chaux forest where his innovative and self-contained salt factory could produce salt for the royal monopoly. Ledoux based his functional design on philosophy detailed in his book 'Architecture Considered in Relation to Art, Morals, and Legislation.' His rational geometry, hierarchical organization and rustic decoration, emphasizing light and shadow, regained appreciation after WWII, and the preserved area is now a cultural center." |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as an episode of the television program Architectures in 2003. "...écrit par Stan Neumann ; réalisé par Stan Neumann et Richard Copans"--End credits. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (25 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences |
| Audience: | 11 & up. |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Stan Neumann, Katell Djian ; editor, Stan Neumann, Juliette Garcias. |