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ARCHITECTURE72 Future Fictions soaring above normal life. Art director Erich Kettlehut's
T H E S E THREE HIGHLY DETAILED DRAWINGS invite us to vertiginous design for the city of a slavelike populace
enter the long-shadowed architecture of imaginary worlds. had a future influence on movies such as Blade Runner.
Boullee's monolithic apparition was drawn as a monument
to Sir Isaac Newton. Within it, antlike mortals might have Paul Nobles epic drawing summons an imperfect and
speculated upon the universe. This is the work of an disturbing township where ruin and activity are equal
architectural theoretician; the ominous globe exists only as and strange. We glide over exquisitely drawn wastelands
a series of drawings. Among preparations for Fritz Langs of damage and abandonment, experiencing a fascinating
film Metropolis, made in 1926, we find other Utopian visions conflict between curiosity and desolation.

ETIENNE-LOUIS BOULLEE Light illusions This pen-and-wash drawing Newton's Cenotaph
shows a subtle application of the principles 1784
French architectural theorist, of illumination demonstrated with an egg on
painter; and draftsman. Boullee lived p.96.The lower-left section of the building 153/4 x 25 in ( 4 0 2 x 635 m m )
in Paris, and taught at the A c a d e m i e appears relatively pale against a darker
d'Architecture. His celebrated imaginary sky, and the reverse is true on the right. ETIENNE-LOUIS BOULLEE
buildings are characterized by pyramids, This shift makes the cenotaph appear
spheres, arched vaults, cylinders, and three-dimensional.
dramatic lighting.