Feb 5, 2015
“Signs ... ‘win more people to independence than will battles’.” (Auslander 227)
“Architecture was understood as a means of public education; buildings and monuments were to promote virtue.Their materiality and scale were understood to give them particular powers. “ (233)
“Boullée’s design of 1792 for the Palais national ... demonstrate[s] efforts to embody the political principles of the Revolution in architecture. ... The building was characterized by sharply drawn geometric forms ... representing the principle of the equality of all representatives of the nation... While full of references to the classical world, the design is wholly forward-looking and original: a new building for a new form of government.” (234)