Contributions

  • University of St. Thomas. - Contributor

Publication

1968 - Printed by Gulf Print. Co., [Houston, Tex, Texas

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC720/.922
  • LCCNA1052 .L4

Description

The drawings and engravings of the French visionary architects Boullee, Ledoux, and Lequeu lie on the nervous cusp of Neoclassicism and hallucination. The three designed vast, impractical monuments, villas and temples, cathedrals and libraries, incorporating motifs from the classical era informed by the new intellectual freedoms of the Enlightenment. The resulting drawings and plans are like nothing done before or since, and their daring has reverberated through to us in the work of such architects as Speer, Graves, Sant'Elia, and Stirling.

Subjects

Topics

OntwerpenBouwkunstExhibitionsArchitectureModern Architecture21.62 history of architectureLedoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806

People

Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806)Boullée, Étienne Louis (1728-1799)Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-ca. 1825)

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