Du génie de l'architecture : ouvrage ayant pour but de rendre cet art accessible au sentiment commun, en le rappelant à son origine, à ses propriétés, à son génie ...
Du génie de l'architecture is an 1822 Paris treatise by architect-writer Jean Antoine Coussin, published by F. Didot, aimed at general readers and framed as a history of architecture from its origins onward. Its plates are engraved architectural views and plans of ancient buildings, including Egyptian, Greek and Roman interiors and colonnades. A designer could take from them the rhythm of repeated columns and arches, the flat linear engraving style with fine hatching, and the ordered symmetry of plan drawings set beside elevations.
