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SUMMARY:“Une maison pour me loger”: The Luxembourg Palace and the Acci
 dents of History / TPOD
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DESCRIPTION:Sara Galletti\nThis lecture is part of the course Harmony and
  Conflicts by Marson Korbi\, within The Doctoral Program of EDAR\, EPFL\n\
 n“Une maison pour me loger”: The Luxembourg Palace and the Accidents o
 f History\, by Sara Galletti\nThe session will use the Luxembourg Palace (
 Paris\, 1611–31)\, designed by Salomon de Brosse for Queen Regent Maria 
 de’ Medici\, as a case study to explore the notion of context and its re
 levance in the production of multidimensional architectural narratives. Fi
 rst imagined as a simple ‘home’\, the Luxembourg became\, during the t
 wo decades of its planning and construction\, not only an extraordinarily 
 lavish royal residence but also a project that materialized the tensions o
 f its time—institutional and artistic—and actively engaged to steer th
 eir direction. Context\, in this case\, will be understood to range from 
 the material setting of the palace—such as the needs it has to address o
 r the urban and environmental situation in which it was situated—\, to t
 he immaterial circumstances of its coming into being\, including the polit
 ical and economic conditions in which it was conceived\, as well as the de
 sires and ambitions it was expected to realize. \n\nSara Galletti is an A
 ssociate Professor of Art and Architectural History at Duke University. Sh
 e received an M.Arch. from IUAV (Venice) and a joint PhD in the History of
  Architecture and Urbanism from the Université de Paris IV–Sorbonne and
  IUAV. Her field of research is early modern architectural theory and prac
 tice\, with a focus on early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. Her firs
 t book\, Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis\, 1611-1631\, was p
 ublished by Éditions Picard (Paris\, 2012). She is currently working on a
  book tentatively titled History of Stone Vaulting in the Premodern Medit
 erranean: Practices\, Theories\, and Patterns of Knowledge Transfer. \n\n
 Image: from Sara Galletti\, Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis 1
 611-1631\, 2012
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