Architect: Louis de Boulogne
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont, Hadid
22 March 2022
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont, Hadid22 March 2022
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. On a crisp January morning I made my way to York railway station to visit the Drawing Matter collection. This research trip is more than a year overdue, delayed by the global Covid-19 pandemic, and I am now already in the third year… Read More
All back to front: D’Aviler’s Cours D’Architecture
9 November 2020
All back to front: D’Aviler’s Cours D’Architecture9 November 2020
In Louis de Boulogne’s drawing, now in the Drawing Matter collection, Architecture appears as a young woman. She sits leaning on an altar with a Corinthian capital at her feet, compasses in one hand and a portrait of Vignola in the other. Behind her are the ruins of Rome. It… Read More