Leila Taylor: Architecture of Shadows: Etienne-Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Isaac Newton

Sat, Mar 16 2024
10:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Central Library

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Room: Languages & Literature, 1st Floor

In 1785, French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée envisioned a memorial in homage to his hero, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Isaac Newton. This illustrated lecture on Boullée’s Cenotaph for Isaac Newton explores his attempt to design the infinite, recreate the cosmos, and evoke transcendence through architecture.

Leila Taylor is writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her essays have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene, liquid blackness, and the graphic novel Bitter Root. She lives in Brooklyn where she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library.

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Add to My Calendar 03/16/2024 10:00 pm 03/16/2024 10:30 pm America/New_York Leila Taylor: Architecture of Shadows: Etienne-Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Isaac Newton

Room: Languages & Literature, 1st Floor

In 1785, French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée envisioned a memorial in homage to his hero, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Isaac Newton. This illustrated lecture on Boullée’s Cenotaph for Isaac Newton explores his attempt to design the infinite, recreate the cosmos, and evoke transcendence through architecture.

Leila Taylor is writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her essays have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene, liquid blackness, and the graphic novel Bitter Root. She lives in Brooklyn where she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library.

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