Étienne-Louis Boullée
French architect (1728-1799)
Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects.
He developed a distinctive abstract geometric style inspired by Classical forms. His work was characterised by the removal of all unnecessary ornamentation, inflating geometric forms to a huge scale and repeating elements such as columns in huge ranges.
For Boullée regularity, symmetry and variety were the golden rules of architecture.
Project for the interior of a metropolitan church.
Boullée, Deuxieme projet pour la Bibliothèque du Roi (1785)
Project for the Cénotaphe à Newton, cross-section with day effect.
Project for the Cénotaphe à Newton, 1784.
Project for a cenotaph in the Egyptian style, 1786.
Project for a Paris opera house, 1781.
Cénotaphe à Newton (1784)
Project for the Cénotaphe à Newton, cross-section with night effect.