Versailles chief architect Fr??d??ric Didier's preface--in which he praises the resuscitation of "subtleties that one believed forever lost"--attests to the seriousness underlying Zega and Dams' light touch: This project represents a definitive architecturalrecord of Versailles.
The show is a must-see for any architectural professional or student of architecture, but the studies, notes and axonometric diagrams that record his thoughts and design process may be a little hard going for a general public more accustomed to dramatic sequences of photographic images and drop-dead models of buildings in proper chronological order.
