Jean-Jacques Lequeu: The Architectural Imagination in the Age of Reason

With Barry Bergdoll

On April 14, 2020, the ICAA held its first virtual livestream Public Program by hosting Barry Bergdoll, who spoke about the vivid imagination and skillful renderings of draftsman and architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu.

Barry Bergdoll is a specialist in late 18th and 19th century French and German architecture, and the author of numerous works on the period, including the textbook European Architecture 1750-1890 in the Oxford History of Art series. He is also the author of the introduction to the recent ICAA publication The Complete Works of Percier and Fontaine, published in partnership with Princeton Architectural Press. He is Professor of Art History at Columbia University and former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sponsors

Presented as part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support of this program, along with the Curricula's Lead Co-Sponsor Hollander Design Landscape Architects, Film Series Co-Sponsor Janice Parker Landscape Architects, and Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss.

This lecture is also presented as part of The Françoise and Andrew Skurman Lecture Series on Classical French Architecture.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor:
RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor:
Hyde Park Mouldings

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