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.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
This is perhaps the coolest thing I have ever seen.
April 8th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
[...] Em março passado houve uma semana dedicada à arquitetura visionária. Um dos artigos fala de 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. [...]
May 25th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Proceedings,
Look at this.
Tomas Saraceno is an argentine architect and artist who wants to build cities in the sky! He is currently exhibiting an extraordinary film he shot in a salt lake in Bolivia.
Go here for some images:
http://my.opera.com/mildz/blog/index.dml/tag/air-port%20city
It is part of a bigger exhibit entitled:
Future City
Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006
It lasts until September 17th of this year.
Here is the link:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=4230
Regards,
Andrés Hax