Abstract:

Like a phoenix from the flames, the nineteenth-century French restorer and architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s name was resurrected from the ashes of the fire that consumed Notre-Dame cathedral on the evening of April 15, 2019. But the invocation of Viollet-le-Duc’s legacy in the aftermath of the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral was, more often than not, a firewall against engaging with the disturbing and still relevant core of his practice and theory of restoration. This essay tarries with this virtual and inexhaustible core through three scenes of conflagration that illuminate the fire and passion of his thinking for our time.

摘要：

2019 年 4 月 15 日晚，巴黎圣母院的大火，让 19 世纪法国修复师和建筑理论家 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 的名字像烈火中的凤凰一样复活了。 Viollet-le-Duc 在巴黎圣母院被烧毁后留下的遗产，往往是一道防火墙，防止与他的实践和修复理论中令人不安且仍然相关的核心接触。这篇文章通过三个燃烧的场景，照亮了他对我们这个时代的思考的火焰和激情，以此来延续这个虚拟的、取之不尽的核心。