Louis Kahn et al.
Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu.
Houston: University of St. Thomas, 1967. First edition. 240 pages.
Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 9.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Profusely illustrated.
Catalogue of an exhibition that after an initial showing at the University of St. Thomas (October 1967 - January 1968) traveled to the City Museum of St. Louis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art Instititute of Chicago and the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
"The drawings and engravings of the French visionary architects Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu lie on the nervous cusp of Neoclassicism and hallucination. The three designed vast, impractical monuments, villas and temples, cathedrals and libraries, incorporating motifs from the classical era informed by the new intellectual freedoms of the Enlightenment. The resulting drawings and plans are like nothing done before or since, and their daring has reverberated through to us in the work of such architects as Speer, Graves, Sant'Elia, and Stirling."