Author: Mathis Steinmann

Process It has been so long since the last time working on “Friends with an Old Book”, that I had to go through my old posts, to refresh my memory of Charles Antoin Jombert’s work. Since the full title means something along the lines of “Modern architecture: Building good architecture for all kinds of people”,…

The book “architecture moderne” by Charles Antoine Jombert was published in 1728, as mentioned in the previous exercise. The title is very revealing in a way, as it shows us what people in 1728 considered modern architecture. What is an old building to us today was once the pinnacle of architectural development and technology. Jombert’s…

Review of the work “Architecture moderne, ou l’art de bien bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes tant pour les maisons des particuliers que pour les palais / [Charles-Etienne Briseux]”, written by Claude Jombert and Charles Etienne. Published 1728. These two pages depict in great detail the sectional view and ground plane of a very thin city…