Linnéa Rollenhagen Tilly: January 2022

Friday, January 14, 2022

Versailles 1900-1930

Aujourd'hui paraît Versailles, 1900-1930, livre qui rend compte de la richesse du patrimoine versaillais de cette période.

Sous la direction de Maurice Culot et Charlotte Mus.

Textes : Linnéa Tilly, Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, Charlotte Mus, servis par les photographies de Luc Boegly.

304 pages, plus de 250 illustrations, 35 euros.

Linnéa Rollenhagen Tilly

As an Art Historian, I am teaching Urban and Architectural history as French 19th century painting. My teaching focus upon the making of art and architecture (actors as social contexts or constraints), thus not only the aesthetical aspects, but also the observation and questioning of the built environment and the reasons behind the makng of a piece of art. As much as possible I include field studies in museums and the city of Paris.

Associated research fellow at AUSser-ATTHEP and HISTARA, I am specialized in 17th and 18th century French and Swedish architecture and construction history. I received a PhD from the Paris-Sorbonne IV university in 2006.
In my MA thesis I reconstituted the history of the construction of the quays in Toulouse (1760-1790), the organization of a public building site in the 18th century, practical issues, professions involved, the reshaping of an old urban feature and the reception of the project (critics upon of its utility). A research that has been summarized in several articles.
In my PhD thesis, "Ordinary houses in Paris, 1650-1790", I draw the architectural and functional features of ordinary houses in Paris. Based on archive studies (texts and iconography), the analyzis focuses on the functions, the making, the materials and interior planning system of a broad panel of buildings that rarely survived time and were adapted to the user’s needs. This research is also displayed in several articles.

Since 2007 as a freelance researcher I've been studing the Swedish superintendant Carl Johan Cronstedt, his activities as an organisator and architect. Several articles summarizes parts of these researches as a book published in 2017 (Balkong Förlag in Stockholm, Sweden). A first biography, tracing the content of Cronstedts European training in architecture, his professional network and chosen parts of his professional activities in Sweden (housings, bridges and churches). The book is based on an exceptional material giving new insights in the making of an European architects’ library and thus his education.
Through these projects my interest for French-Swedish professional networks (master-models and materials), the transfer of French models to Sweden and the drawing of a Swedish National style has awaken. Which notably led to published texts upon other French-Swedish architects: Carl Wijnblad, Carl Henric König, F.A.U. Cronstedt, Antoine Desgodets as Simon and Jean de la Vallée. My ongoing research project "Knowledge and Friendships: French-Swedish networking in architecture and construction technology, 17th & 18th centuries" I am mapping travel of craftsmen and their families, their education and apprenticeships, networks, friendships and activities on the European continent and in Scandinavia through the 17th and 18th centuries. How collective exchanges and innovations contributed to improve heating systems (the Swedish stove) and brick coatings, for example. My contributions to the Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices (édition des femmes, 2013) led to a deeper insight into the late acceptation of women as architects, through a Scandinavian perspective (Sweden and Norway). More recently the co-writing of a book dealing with the architecture in Versailles in the first decades of the 20th century - Versailles 1900-1930 (éd. AAM, 2021) - widened further my knowledge by discovering unpublished documentation on a very productive and quite unknown period in the making of this city.