Étienne-Louis Boullée

Proposal for the Cénotaphe à Newton [Newton Memorial], interior, 1784.

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.

Proposals

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  Cénotaphe à Newton [Newton Memorial], 1784

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  Cénotaphe à Newton [Newton Memorial], 1784

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  National Library, interior, 1785

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  Pyramidal cenotaph of the Sepulchral Chapel, c1786

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  Conical cenotaph of the Sepulchral Chapel, c1786

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  Conical cenotaph of the Sepulchral Chapel, interior, c1786

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  Metropolitan church at Corpus Christi

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  Museum, plan, 1789

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  neoclassical cutaway, 1790s

Literature

• 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.
• Ross Wolfe, "Revolutionary precursors: Radical bourgeois architects in the age of reason and revolution", The Charnel-House blog, 25 June 2011.

External links

• Boullée at French National Library (in French)
• Boullée at Wikipedia