WEEK 3
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2. CENOTAPH TO NEWTON ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE IMAGINATION, EMPIRICISM, KNOWLEDGE KEY CONCEPT Etienne- Louis Boullee’s Cenotaph to Newton is an imagined monument embodying and idealising the core theories of the enlightenment converging on empiricism and romanticism, celebrating the sublimity of architecture in an ode to Sir Isaac Newton (Kaufmann 1952) . The 18 th century visionary for a colossal monument, represented as a series of ink and graphite rendered drawings portrays the provocative design which foreshadowed the modern conception of architectural design (Schaller 1997) . The proposed ‘Cenotaph to Newtown’, which would have been erected at 150m, becoming the tallest built structure in the world, stumping the Pyramids of Giza, was idealised as the resting place for revolutionary scientist Isaac Newton, who’s work became a revered symbol of Enlightenment ideals (Kaufmann 1952) . Newton described as a ‘natural philosopher’ formulated...
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