Etienne Boullée, who later on became a great visionary architect, was one of the many students who created a design for the perfect museum. Boullée was able to surpass younger architectures because of his ability to achieve dramatic effect through his handling of space and light, scale and perspective; while working with the established parameters of the building type. Boullée’s museum was successful not only in design he also successfully expressed the utopian character of the museum. The concept of “character” was at the heart of Boullée and all eighteenth-century architect design. The theory of character held that buildings must be expressive of their use, and that a mere glimpse of a building would reveal its significance. This effect on
