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Étienne-Louis Boullée: Architecture, Essai Sur L'art (Book)
Étienne-Louis Boullée: Architecture, Essai Sur L'art (Book)
Theatre exterior
“Greatness is directly related to beauty and,
under different meanings, it is the
same whether objects are pleasant or
horrifying. Looking grand in anything means
revealing superior qualities”
Cenotaph Boullee
Light represents Newton, lighting the knowledge of mankind Perforated roof gives night sky view during day
Play of light and shadow
“To produce sad and dark images it is necessary to present architecture by means of a
completely bare wall, as I intended in some funerary buildings, showing a picture of
sunken architecture by means of low proportions and buried into the ground; in short,
give shape, by means of light absorbing materials, to the dark image of an architecture
defined by the shadow effect. This type of shadow-integrated architecture is an artistic
discovery that belongs to me ...
Metropolitan Church