DRAWING TIME: VIOLLET-LE-DUC’S INVESTIGATIONS OF NATURAL AND HUMAN HISTORIES

Zoom lecture by Martin Bressani at 6.00 pm (London). He will present the exhibition `Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds’ currently shown at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York, which he co-curated with Barry Bergdoll. This is the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), celebrated restorer of Notre-Dame de Paris and one of modern architecture’s most influential figures. It is also the first to spotlight the primacy of drawing in his career. Spanning four decades, the show gathers nearly two hundred works that animate both history and nature—antique theatres and medieval cathedrals reborn on paper, Alpine landscapes dissected with geological precision, even bold speculations on climate and race.