The Arcades Project - Operi

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arts-a view which is, unhappily, deeply rooted iu him and deeply pondered." Victor Hugo, Oeuvres completes, novels, vol. 3 (paris, 1880), p. 5.' [F6,3] Before the decision to build the Palais de I'IndustrielO was made, a plan had existed to roof over a section of the Champs-Elysees-along with its trees-in the manner of the Crystal Palace. [F6,4] Victor Hugo in Notre-Dame de Paris, on the Bourse: 'If it he the rule that the architecture of a building should he adapted to its function, ... we can hardly wonder enough at a monument which might equally well be a king's palace, a house of commons, a town hall, a college, a riding school, an academy, a warehouse, a law court, a museum, a barracks, a sepulcher, a temple, or a theater. For the present, it is a stock exchange . ... It is a stock exchange in France just as it would have been a temple in Greece . ... We have the colonnade encircling the monument, beneath which, on days of high religious solemnity, the theory of stockbrokers and jobbers can be majestically expounded. These, for sure, are very stately monuments. If we add to them many fine streets, as amusing and diverse as the Rue de Rivoli, then I do not despair but that one day a balloon's-eye view of Paris will offer us that wealth of lines, . .. that diversity of aspect, that somehow . .. unexpected beauty, which characterizes a checkerhoard." Victor Hugo, Oeuvres completes, novels, vol. 3 (Paris , 1880), pp. 206-207 (Notre-Dame de Paris). II [F6a,1] The Paris Stock Exchange, mid-nineteenth century. Courtesy of the Paris Stock Exchange. See F6a,1.

1ne Palais de l'lndustrie at the world exhibition of 1855. See F6a,2. Palais de l'Industrie: "One is struck by the elegance and lightness of the iron framework; yet the engineer, ... Monsieur Bm-rauIt, has shown more skill than taste. As for the domed glass roof, . .. it is awkwardly placed, and the idea evoked ... is ... that of a large cloche: industry in a hothouse . ... On each side of the entrance have been placed two superb locomotives with their tenders." This last arrangement presumably occasioned by the distribution of prizes which closed the exhibition on November 15, 1855. Louis Enault, "Le Palais de PIndustrie," in Paris et les Pa.risiens an XIX' siixle (Paris, 1856), pp. 313, 315. [F6a,2] From Charles-Franc;ois Viel, De l'Impuissance des mathematiques pour assurer la solidite des bc1timents (Paris 1805): Viel distinguishes ordonnance from construction and faults the younger architects above all for insufficient knowledge of the former. Ultimately responsible is " the new direction that public instruction in this art has taken, in the wake of our political tempests" (p. 9). "As for the geometers who practice architecture, their buildings-as regards invention and construction-prove the nullit.y of mathematics where ordonnance and structural stability are concerned" (p. 10). "The mathematicians . .. claim to have . .. reconciled boldness with stability. It is only under the aegis of algebra that these

1ne Palais de l'lndustrie at the world exhibition of 1855. See F6a,2.<br />

Palais de l'Industrie: "One is struck by the elegance and lightness of the iron<br />

framework; yet the engineer, ... Monsieur Bm-rauIt, has shown more skill than<br />

taste. As for the domed glass roof, . .. it is awkwardly placed, and the idea evoked<br />

... is ... that of a large cloche: industry in a hothouse . ... On each side of the<br />

entrance have been placed two superb locomotives with their tenders." This last<br />

arrangement presumably occasioned by the distribution of prizes which closed the<br />

exhibition on November 15, 1855. Louis Enault, "Le Palais de PIndustrie," in<br />

Paris et les Pa.risiens an XIX' siixle (Paris, 1856), pp. 313, 315. [F6a,2]<br />

From Charles-Franc;ois Viel, De l'Impuissance des mathematiques pour assurer la<br />

solidite des bc1timents (Paris 1805): Viel distinguishes ordonnance <br />

from construction and faults the younger architects above all for insufficient<br />

knowledge of the former. Ultimately responsible is " the new direction that public<br />

instruction in this art has taken, in the wake of our political tempests" (p. 9). "As<br />

for the geometers who practice architecture, their buildings-as regards invention<br />

and construction-prove the nullit.y of mathematics where ordonnance and structural<br />

stability are concerned" (p. 10). "<strong>The</strong> mathematicians . .. claim to have . ..<br />

reconciled boldness with stability. It is only under the aegis of algebra that these

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