Étienne-Louis Boullée

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Étienne-Louis Boullée was an 18th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his visionary, monumental designs that profoundly influenced the development of Neoclassical architecture.

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Boullée 1
Claude Nicolas Ledoux 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French person
architect
architecture theorist
human
architecturalStyle Neoclassical architecture
burialPlace Paris
centuryOfActivity 18th century
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1728-02-12
dateOfDeath 1799-02-04
describedAs utopian designer
visionary architect
employer Académie royale d’architecture
surface form: Académie Royale d’Architecture

École des Ponts et Chaussées
surface form: École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
familyName Étienne-Louis Boullée self-linksurface differs
surface form: Boullée
fieldOfWork architectural theory
architecture
genre architectural treatise
givenName Étienne-Louis
influenced Neoclassical architecture
surface form: Neoclassical architects
influencedBy Classical architecture
Enlightenment ideas
knownFor influence on Neoclassical architecture
monumental scale projects
visionary architectural designs
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement Neoclassicism
name Étienne-Louis Boullée self-link
nationality French
notableWork Essais sur l’art
surface form: Architecture, essai sur l’art

Cenotaph for Isaac Newton
project for a metropolitan cathedral
project for a museum
project for a national palace
project for a royal library
occupation architect
architecture theorist
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Paris
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld member of the Académie Royale d’Architecture
professor of architecture
sexOrGender male
styleCharacteristic austere surfaces
emphasis on light and shadow
monumental scale
use of pure geometric forms
workPeriod 18th century

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this entity surface form: Boullée
Neoclassical architecture hasNotableProponent Étienne-Louis Boullée
Neoclassical architecture hasNotableProponent Étienne-Louis Boullée
this entity surface form: Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Neoclassicism majorFigure Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée name Étienne-Louis Boullée self-link