VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE WEEK: Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Jean-Janques Lequeu, the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century French architect of fanciful yet preposterously implausible (and unrealized) buildings, is a hero of the Athanasius Kircher Society.
“The inventions of Lequeu … belong to another world, a world pervaded by dreams and eccentricities. Lequeu’s universe is crowded with details and marginalia, but it is nonetheless empty: alcoves are deserted; temples have no devotees; roads no traffic. The question becomes inevitable: Was Lequeu ever addressing anyone but himself?”
- from the forward to Visionary Architects: Boulee, Ledoux, Lequeu.
Not long ago, Pruned sketched the outline for a proposed Lequeu biopic, casting him as the Salieri to Etienne-Louis Boulee’s Mozart. A large collection of Lequeu drawings are available at the BNF’s Gallica. And more from a weblog we esteem, Giornale Nuovo.



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