Architect: Barthélemy Enfantin
Barthélemy Enfantin
12 September 2016
Barthélemy Enfantin12 September 2016
This strange, flat drawing in watercolour, ink and pencil comprises a sheet of studies thought to be made by French economist and political theorist Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin in 1849. It depicts ideas for the organisation of a military complex, a cité militaire, possibly with Algeria in mind as a location. Enfantin published… Read More
Startha Éagsula: David Leech Architects on Barthélemy Enfantin
19 November 2020
Startha Éagsula: David Leech Architects on Barthélemy Enfantin19 November 2020
– David Leech
The colourful ink and pencil drawing of Barthélemy Enfantin seeks to establish a set of rules for a new open metropolis. Without site, set out in all axes, and with the edges of the drawing alluding to a non-determined repetition, it was possibly drawn for continuous reuse and translation. Like… Read More
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