Architect:

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

BY : Basawaraj s Patil
USN- 1IT 16AT 008
III rd Semester Architect
HMS – SOA KA-38
Architect
Ledoux
Born : 21 March 1736
Born Place : France
Died : 18 .11.1806,
Died Place : Paris, France
Father :
Mother :
School :
Architect :
Under Archi/ :
French architect who developed an eclectic
and visionary architecture linked with nascent
pre-Revolutionary social ideals.
HI Ledoux studied under: J.-F. Blondel and L.-
F. Trouard.
Architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
started the project for the “Ideal City
of Chaux”.
Twenty years before that time, in
1775-1778,
The architect had designed and built
the Royal Saltworks (Les Salines
Royales) at Arc-et-Senans in the
territory of the massive forest of
Chaux,
In the region of Franche-Comté, a
complex of buildings which would
become the starting point for the
project of an utopian city.
 Later works
Project for the ideal city of Chaux: House
of supervisors of the source of the Loue.
The Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (1775– Published in 1804.
1778)

Hôtel d'Hallwyll, Paris, 1766. Elevation of

the facade on the rue Michel-le-Comte
Château de Mauperthuis,
1763 (demolished)

Pavilion of Mme du Barry, Louveciennes, 1770-1771