Group Work with Bruce Liang | Spring 2023
The architecture of the French hôtel evolved from traditional French planning, embracing asymmetry, articulation, and discontinuity. In the baroque hôtel, the ideal type had to be deformed due to urban constraints, showcasing a new attitude of negotiation between the ideal and the circumstantial. Michael Dennis's "Court and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture" explores this historical and typological change, demonstrating the art of the plan in French hôtel.
The Hôtel de Sens, a prototype to Baroque Hôtel, is chosen as a starting point for this study. We speculated and illustrated its spatial transformation to Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical Hôtel.