Lecture on Viollet-le-Duc's integration of race and style in the nineteenth-century

1. Glacier of Saleinoz. July 15, 1871
The Alpine Heights of Viollet-le-Duc: Villa la Vedette, Lausanne, Switzerland (1874)

2. HABITATIONS OF MAN IN ALL AGES
•Historical narrative of construction
•Syntax of Constructive Systems
•Parallels Ethnography with construction

12. INDRA : ARGUS
SIVITRI : POSEIDON
OGHA : OCEANUS

13. “From pre-abstraction, man is thus drawn to
expression through the medium of myths and
symbols: from that moment the artist had to
intervene, to interpret these concepts by finite
forms, engraving them on men’s minds… Thus the
ordinary worshiper is initiated by an image
representing phenomena caused by the divine
power, and deciphers in a concrete way the
enigma whose mystical sense is only understood
by the Brahmans.”
Viollet-le-Duc 1864, Beaux-Arts Lecture

15. “Let us first establish certain overriding facts. The
various human races are not equal, and to take
the two extremities it is clear that the white
races… are infinitely superior to the black races…
The former have an orderly history… the latter are
still where they were twenty centuries ago… The
further back we go into the distant past, the more
marked become these differences.”
Viollet-le-Duc 1864, Beaux-Arts Lecture

16. “Aryan peoples had a supremely high level of skill,
or is you wish, instinct, in producing color
contributions that were agreeable to the eye.”
Viollet-le-Duc 1864, Beaux-Arts Lecture

17. “…by concentrating on the study of what caused
the periods when great art blossomed…
Viollet-le-Duc 1864, Beaux-Arts Lecture

31. Viollet-le-Duc, E. E. (b.1814, d.1879) Broca, Paul (b.1824, d.1880)
1858-68 Dictionnaire Raisonne, ten volumes 1875 Instructions on Craniology and Craniometrics of
the Society of Anthropology of Paris
1863-72 Entretiens sur l’architecture, two volumes
1878 Anthropology
1874 Story of a House
1875 Habitations of Man
1877 Habitations Moderne, vol.2; L’Art Russe Topinard, Paul (b.1830, d.1911)
1859 De l’ecolution des mloaires et premolaires chez
les primates et en particulieur chez l’Homme
1878 Anthropology (intro. Paul Broca)
1893 Anthropology of the United States
1899 Science and Faith; or man as an animal and man
as a member of Society, with a discussion of
animal societies
Salles, Eusebe de (b.1796, d.1872)
1849 General History of the Human Races
Gobineau, Arthur de (b.1816, d.1882)
1853 Essay on the Inequality of the Races