超越时代的空想建筑大师——布雷

Visionary Architect Going Well Beyond His Time: Etienne-Louis Boullee

布雷是18世纪法国新古典主义的代表人物,他的大部分设计作品并未落成,被人们称之为空想建筑师。在古典建筑设计理念的基础上,他主动探索建筑与光线、自然、美学、象征等因素的关系,以及建筑本质和其设计语言的表达,从而打破了传统建筑的束缚,使人们重新了解和认识新古典主义,并显示出了超越时代的前瞻性。作为法国大革命时期建筑哲学和理论的代表和核心人物,布雷的建筑思想对于研究20世纪初期的现代建筑理论有着很强的理论指导意义。

Boullee is the 18th century French neo-classical figure who was known as utopian architects.Most of his design work is not completed.On the basis of design concept of classical architecture,he actively explored the relationships between buildings with light,nature,aesthetics and symbol,also the architectural essence and its expression of design language,his theory thus broke the shackles of traditional architecture,made people understand and knew the neoclassicism again,and transcended the limits of his time.As a representative and core character of architecture philosophy and theory during the French revolution,Boullee＇s ideas has very strong theoretical guiding sense for the research on the modern architectural theory of the early 20th century.