PARSING PRACTICE


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Parsing Practice collects, parses and catalogs ideas

We are interested in exploring the intersection of a buidling’s form, materiality, craftmanship and timelessness.





People 

Materiality & Craeft

Building Typology

Representation

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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.