A gifted young architect

A gifted young architect

Etienne Louis Boullee was (17) ________ the most imaginative architect of the (18) ________ period. His designs include immense public libraries, circular museums, monumental city gates, visionary garden pavilions, and more than forty memorial buildings, all the (19) ________ of a genius whose long list of (20) ________ was amassed within a short lifetime. Influenced chiefly by Roman architecture, Boullee’s work shows great (21) ________ to the prescribed norms of classicism, being characterised by (22) ________ of form and proportion. Boullee has become the (23) ________ for generations of architects after him and his drawings are still among the most studied architectural works today. Who doesn’t have an immediate (24) ________ to the sight of his vast cenotaph, not to mention the many bold schemes preserved in his notebooks, all now studied carefully by architects worldwide?