LD ARCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vaux-Le-Vicomte, Gardens Of The French Renaissance, Louis Le Vau
18 May 2016
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Vaux le vicomte (1661): baroque french chateau for nicolas fouquet: by architect louis le vau, landscape architect andrew le notre, and painter- decorator charles le brun. Their collaboration marked beginning of louis xiv style : visual axis, distorted perspective. Louis xiv needed large water supply for his fountains; insuf cient use of water! Composed of 14 water wheels (noria): for lifting water into aqueduct. Terms: bosquet: relatively small and private space, enclosed by forest greenery, within larger french garden plan. Chateau: manor house/country house of nobility: orangerie: large room with glass to allow light in. Used for winter storage of citrus until they can be set out again in the garden during spring. Characteristics: symmetrical: axial arrangement, balanced; geometrical, enormouse, elegant, grand, controlled, rigid (think le notre, perspective: things closer to chateau positioned closer together, while items further away are spaced out more.
