Theorist
Étienne-Louis Boullée
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Details
- Nationality
- French
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
Boullée is grouped with the Bibiena family, Piranesi, and other French revolutionary architects as an eighteenth-century 'paper architect' who explored Burke's anti-classical insights about the sublime and imagination.
Connections
- authored Visionary Projects
- associated with Neoclassical Architecture
- authored Cenotaph for Isaac Newton
- mentored Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Referenced by
- Marc-Antoine Laugier influenced
Sources
- Étienne-Louis Boullée. Architecture, Essai sur l'art. 1793.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 10 of 34
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Étienne-Louis Boullée." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/etienne-louis-boullee/. Accessed July 17, 2026.