A Scientific/Industrial Vision of the Future City (1842)

JF Ptak Science Books  2723

 Amédé Couder wrote L'Architecture et l'industrie comme moyen de perfection sociale, a fine work that was published in Paris (by Brockhaus et Avenarius) in 1842.  The work presents Couder's rather stroing visionary plans for a perfect city of industrial and scientific harmony, laid out in suggestively-fractal harmony, with the suggestions of a Renaissance-laden snowflake design. Whatever it was, it was beautiful to look at, at least on paper, though I'm not so certain that I'd care to live in the canyonlands of stone and shadow on the other side of the garden wall of the perfect scientific-industrial conclave. 

Projet d'un palais des Arts et de l'industrie.  18x14 inches. 

 

The other images include:

"Projet d'un palais des Arts et de l'Industrie", 18 x 21 ½ inches

“Projet d'un palais des Arts et de l'Industrie”, large, on thick paper. 17 ½ x 31 inches

“Elevation d'une partie de la rue citculaire”

'Elevation de l'Edificee central

Coupe de l'Edifice cnetral (showing the main rotunda.

Facade des cours central

Two single-page engravings of statuary

Double-page engraing “L'Intelligence Offre a Dieu la Reconnaissance des Hommes”, ”Couronnement de l'édifice central") which is basically a presentation of the march of human intellect featuring several hundred figures.

• Full text via Gallica, here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6541638b