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==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
| + | ; By Boullée | ||
| + | * ''Considérations sur l'importance et l'utilité de l'architecture, suivies de vues tendant au progrès des beaux-arts'', manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French) | ||
| + | * ''Architecture. Essai sur l'art'', manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French) | ||
| + | ** ''Treatise on Architecture'', ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Alec Tiranti, 1953. | ||
| + | * ''Mémoire sur les moyens de procurer à la Bibliothèque du roi les avantages que ce monument exige'', manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French) | ||
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| + | ; On Boullée | ||
* Emil Kaufmann, [http://davidrifkind.org/fiu/library_files/kaufmann%20boullee.pdf "Étienne-Louis Boullée"], ''The Art Bulletin'' 21:3 (September 1939), pp 213-227. | * Emil Kaufmann, [http://davidrifkind.org/fiu/library_files/kaufmann%20boullee.pdf "Étienne-Louis Boullée"], ''The Art Bulletin'' 21:3 (September 1939), pp 213-227. | ||
* Emil Kaufmann, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10065 Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu]'', Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1952. | * Emil Kaufmann, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10065 Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu]'', Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1952. | ||
| + | ** ''Trois architectes révolutionnaires, Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu'', Paris, 1978. (in French) | ||
| + | * Jean-Claude Lemagny (ed.), ''Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu'', New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. Catalogue. New edition: Hennessey & Ingalls, 2002. | ||
| + | * Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, ''Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799: Theoretician of Revolutionary Architecture)'', George Braziller, 1974, 128 pp. | ||
| + | * Helen Rosenau (ed.), ''Boullée and Visionary Architecture, New York: Harmony Books, 1976. | ||
| + | * Annie Jacques, ''Les Architectes de la Liberté'', Paris: Gallimard, 1988. (in French) | ||
| + | * Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, ''Boullée, architecte visionnaire'', Hermann, 1993. (in French) | ||
| + | * Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, ''Étienne-Louis Boullée'', Paris: Flammarion, 1994, 287 pp. (in French) | ||
| + | * Jean-Claude Lemagny, ''Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu'', Hennessey & Ingalls, 2002. | ||
* Ross Wolfe, [http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/revolutionary-precursors-radical-bourgeois-architects-in-the-age-of-reason-and-revolution/ "Revolutionary precursors: Radical bourgeois architects in the age of reason and revolution"], ''The Charnel-House'' blog, 25 June 2011. | * Ross Wolfe, [http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/revolutionary-precursors-radical-bourgeois-architects-in-the-age-of-reason-and-revolution/ "Revolutionary precursors: Radical bourgeois architects in the age of reason and revolution"], ''The Charnel-House'' blog, 25 June 2011. | ||
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| + | ; Film | ||
| + | * ''The Belly of an Architect'', dir. Peter Greenaway, 1987. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 12:46, 18 December 2013
Étienne-Louis Boullée (February 12, 1728 – February 4, 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects and is still influential today.
Boullée, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Jean-Jacques Lequeu were each architects and thinkers whose ideas reflected some of the most radical strains of liberal bourgeois philosophy, with its cult of reason and devotion to the triplicate ideals of liberté, égalité, and fraternité. The structures they imagined and city plans they proposed were undeniably some of the most ambitious and revolutionary of their time. At their most fantastic, the buildings they envisioned were absolutely unbuildable — either according to the technical standards of their day or arguably even of our own. [1]
Proposals
Cénotaphe à Newton [Newton Memorial], 1784
Cénotaphe à Newton [Newton Memorial], 1784
National Library, interior, 1785
Pyramidal cenotaph of the Sepulchral Chapel, c1786
Conical cenotaph of the Sepulchral Chapel, c1786
Conical cenotaph of the Sepulchral Chapel, interior, c1786
Metropolitan church at Corpus Christi
Museum, plan, 1789
neoclassical cutaway, 1790s
Literature
- By Boullée
- Considérations sur l'importance et l'utilité de l'architecture, suivies de vues tendant au progrès des beaux-arts, manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French)
- Architecture. Essai sur l'art, manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French)
- Treatise on Architecture, ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Alec Tiranti, 1953.
- Mémoire sur les moyens de procurer à la Bibliothèque du roi les avantages que ce monument exige, manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France. (in French)
- On Boullée
- Emil Kaufmann, "Étienne-Louis Boullée", The Art Bulletin 21:3 (September 1939), pp 213-227.
- Emil Kaufmann, Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1952.
- Trois architectes révolutionnaires, Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, Paris, 1978. (in French)
- Jean-Claude Lemagny (ed.), Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. Catalogue. New edition: Hennessey & Ingalls, 2002.
- Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799: Theoretician of Revolutionary Architecture), George Braziller, 1974, 128 pp.
- Helen Rosenau (ed.), Boullée and Visionary Architecture, New York: Harmony Books, 1976.
- Annie Jacques, Les Architectes de la Liberté, Paris: Gallimard, 1988. (in French)
- Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Boullée, architecte visionnaire, Hermann, 1993. (in French)
- Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Paris: Flammarion, 1994, 287 pp. (in French)
- Jean-Claude Lemagny, Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, Hennessey & Ingalls, 2002.
- Ross Wolfe, "Revolutionary precursors: Radical bourgeois architects in the age of reason and revolution", The Charnel-House blog, 25 June 2011.
- Film
- The Belly of an Architect, dir. Peter Greenaway, 1987.
