- Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (
Rouen ,September 14 1757 –28 March 1826 ) was a French draughtsman andarchitect .Born in
Rouen , he won a scholarship to go toParis , but following theFrench revolution his architectural career never took off.He spent time preparing the "Architecture Civile", a book intended for publication, but which was never published. Most of his drawings can be found at the
Bibliothèque nationale de France . Some of them are pornographic and are kept in the "Enfer" of the library. Most of these drawings have been reproduced in Duboy's book.See also
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Architecture parlante
*Claude Nicolas Ledoux
*Étienne-Louis Boullée Bibliography
*Philippe Duboy. "Lequeu : An Architectural Enigma". MIT Press; ASIN: 0262040867 (November 29, 1986)
*Emil Kaufmann. "Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu." American Philosophical Society, 1952.
*Jean-Claude Lemagny. "Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu". Hennessey & Ingalls; ISBN 0-940512-35-1; (July 2002)External links
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