Plan for rebuilding the Palace of Versailles

Along with Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, the most important representative of Revolutionary architecture was �tienne-Louis Boull�e, who, after initial successes in the private sector, increasingly relied on his work as a teacher and graphic artist. A project for the reshaping of the palace of Versailles, developed in 1780 within the framework of a competition, already shows characteristic features of his architectural approach. The complex hierarchy and carefully differentiated orchestration of fa�ades, with vertical accents in line with Baroque principles of subordination, are reduced in Boull�e to a few huge masses in which horizontals dominate.