Designing The Sublime, Article published in the Public Domain Review

Designing The Sublime, Article published in the Public Domain Review

Designing the SublimeBoullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution

As dissatisfaction with the old regime fermented into revolutionary upheaval in late-eighteenth century France, two architects cast off the decorative excesses of the Baroque and Rococo styles and sought out bold, new geometries. Hugh Aldersey-Williams tours the sublime and mostly unrealized designs of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, discovering utopian ideals crafted in cubes, spheres, and pyramids.

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