Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality et the economics of building. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment. Europe and often previously unpublished drawings

and often previously unpublished drawings that reconstruct its memory

or collection of memoirs

sins and virtues

His training as a painter led him to meet the painter Eugène Fromentin in 1847

quite different from the great sanctuaries with their overwhelming and austere mass

Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality et the economics of building. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment. Europe and often previously unpublished drawingsIn many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio economic and political processes that these societies underwent and or instrumentalized. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such constructions form a useful research target in order to investigate both their associated societies as well as the underlying processes that generated differential construction levels. Monumental