Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (September 14, 1757 – March 28, 1826) was a French draughtsman and architect. he was architect of Académie royale des Sciences', Belles-Lettres, et Beaux-Arts (today Institute de France. Following the events of the French revolution (1789) 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.

Literature

• Emil Kaufmann, Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu, American Philosophical Society, 1952
• Philippe Duboy, Lequeu : An Architectural Enigma, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-04086-0, 1986
• Jean-Claude Lemagny, Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, Hennessey & Ingalls, ISBN 0-940512-35-1, 2002

Links

• http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/revolutionary-precursors-radical-bourgeois-architects-in-the-age-of-reason-and-revolution/
• Jean-Jacques Lequeu on Wikipedia