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I’ve been collecting images by some of the great, visionary architects of 18th century France: Etienne Boullee (1728-1799), Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) and the semi-impossible Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1737-1825). It was a tough time for these architects to see far into the future at the time of the Revolution, as people who were even less deserving than these men lost their heads. In any event I’ve compiled a short three minute video exhibiting some of their works, using the music of Wim Mertens for Peter Greenaway’s love poem to M. Boullee called The Belly of an Architect. I couldn’t but help using this music in this context, sorry to say–it just goes perfectly with these images. (Also, I’ve written about M. Ledoux here.)
