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Along with Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, the most important representative of Revolutionary architecture was Étienne-Louis Boullée, 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 façades, with vertical accents in line with Baroque principles of subordination, are reduced in Boullée to a few huge masses in which horizontals dominate.
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