Annotated Bibliography on Boullee’
Boullée & visionary architecture ed. Helen Rosenau, Pub. Harmony Books, New York, 1976 ISBN 0-85670-157-2. In her seminal book, Rosenau concentrates on how Boullee’ managed to create a cult which dealt exclusively with his passion for ontological designs. She delves deep into the artistic styles which make up the larger part of Boullee’s work and his intrinsic influence on other architects which followed him. More importantly she uses the great classicist and philosopher’s ideas as sources of inspiration, especially Immanuel Kant and Plato comparing their treatises on humanism to Boullee’s grand concepts and inspirational ideals. Although ...
