biography
| name: |
Boullée, Etienne-Louis
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pronunciation:
[boolay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1728–99)
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| biography:
| Architect and theorist, born in Paris, France. He studied under J-F Blondel and Boffrand, was elected to the Académie (1762), and became chief architect to the King of Prussia. His work before the Revolution, including the Hôtel de Brunoy, Paris (1772), was in the Neoclassical style, but his later work involved simple geometrical designs for massive public projects, such as the monument to Isaac Newton (1784). His ideas had a great influence on late 18th-c architects. His Essai sur l'Art, a plea for Neoclassicism and emotion, was only published in 1953. |
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