french architects friday afternoon
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French Architects
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Louis Le Vau
Was a French Classical architect who worked for Louis XIV of
France.
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Louis Le Vau
Born: 1612, Paris, France
Died: October 11, 1670, Paris, France
Period: Baroque
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Works
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Palace of Versailles
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Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Grand trianon
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Jacques- Germain Soufflot• French Architect in the 18th Century
• A leader in the development of Neoclassical architecture
• He studied Law before he Studied Architecture
• Major Inspirations: Gothic Style, Greek Architecture
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Works
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Temple du Change
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Louvre Staircase
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The Pantheon in Paris
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François Mansart
Born: January 13, 1598, Paris, France
Died: September 23, 1666, Paris, France
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• François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France.
• The Encyclopædia Britannicacites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
• Mansart, as he is generally known, made extensive use of a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope, creating additional habitable space in the garrets that ultimately became named after him—the mansard roof.
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Works
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Château de Balleroy
The Château de Maisons, designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture.
The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the department of Yvelines, Île-de-France
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Val-de-Grâce
• The Church of the Val-de-Grâce is the church of a former royal abbey in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in what is now the Val-de-Grâce Hospital. The dome of the church is a principal landmark of the skyline of Paris. Opened in the year 1650
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Château de Blois
• The residence of several French kings, it is also the place where Joan of Arc went in 1429 to be blessed by theArchbishop of Reims before departing with her army to drive the English fromOrléans.
• Built in the middle of the town that it effectively controlled, the château of Bloiscomprises several buildings constructed from the 13th to the 17th century around the main courtyard.
• It has 564 rooms and 75 staircases although only 23 were used frequently. There is a fireplace in each room. There are 100 bedrooms.
• The Royal Château de Blois is located in the Loir-et-Cher département in the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois.
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• a French architect and building contractor, was one of the first to use concrete as an architecturally significant material, and his works had an important influence upon the International Style of the 1920s in Europe.
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• 1920s in Europe.
• Auguste studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris but left without a degree and joined his father's firm. This, at the death of the elder Perret in 1905, became Perret Frères, including as principals Auguste and his brother Gustave. Perret Freres both designed its own buildings and executed the designs of others in reinforced concrete.
• Perret also served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.[1] From 1940 Perret taught at the École des Beaux-Arts. He won the Royal Gold Medal in 1948 and the AIA Gold Medal in 1952.
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Works
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Rue Franklin apartments, Paris, 1902–1904
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Garage at 51 Rue de Ponthieu 1905
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Church of Notre Dame (1922) at Le Raincy near Paris aka Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
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Concert hall of the École Normale de Musique de Paris, 1929
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Tour Perret, Grenoble
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St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre
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Jean NouvelBorn:
12 August 1945
• Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture.
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• He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (technically, the prize was awarded for the Institut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Artsin 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008.
• A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.
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Works
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Torre AgbarThe Torre Agbar is a 38-story skyscraper / towerlocated between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district ofBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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100 Eleventh Avenue
• 100 Eleventh Avenue is a 23-story residential tower at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York. The building is described as “a vision machine” by the architect Jean Nouvel. It has one of the most technologically advanced curtain wall systems in New York
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The Koncerthuset
• The Koncerthuset/ Copenhagen Concert Hall is a part of the new DR Byen that houses the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR. The concert hall and the DR Town are located in the northern part of restad - an ambitious development area in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Christian de PortzamparcBorn:
May 5, 1944
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Christian de Portzamparc• 1989. Commander of the Order of Arts
• 1990. Great Prize of Architecture of the City of Paris
• 1994. Pritzker Architecture Prize
• He is the author of Généalogie des formes = Genealogy of Forms (1996), in French and English, and the co-author (with Philippe Sollers) of Voir, écrire (2003; Eng. trans. Writing and Seeing Architecture).
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Christian de PortzamparcIs a French architect and urban planner whose distinctly modern and
elegant designs reflect his sensitivity to and understanding of the greater urban environment. He was the first French architect to win the Pritzker
Prize.
Portzamparc’s interest in architecture and the built environment was stirred at a young age when he viewed sketches by Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
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Works & Practices
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PARIS OPÉRA BALLET SCHOOL. Nanterre, France . 1987 tices
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PHILHARMONIE LUXEMBOURG. 2005
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PARIS OPÉRA BALLET SCHOOL. Nanterre, France . 1987 tices
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CIDADE DAS ARTES. Rio de Janeiro. 2013
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HOTEL RENAISSANCE ARC DE TRIOMPHE. Paris, France. 2009
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Ange- Jacques Gabriel
• French Architect
• Famous During the Late 17- 18th century
• Built or enlarged many châteaus and palaces during the reign of Louis XV.
• They were a family of Architects
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Ange- Jacques Gabriel
• His structures exhibit a “noble simplicity” in the austere but harmonious arrangement of their masses and their subdued Classical decoration.
• He was also notable for his use of attached columns in place of pilasters, in both exterior and interior facades.
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Works
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Palace of Versailes
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Hotel de Crillon
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Le Petite Trianon
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Le Corbusier
• Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
• Architectural Style is Modern
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Le Corbusier• Although he was working as a Cubist
painter at the time, he felt that Cubism had grown too romantic; thus, the manifesto was his ode to a new artistic movement: Purism.
• Le Corbusier’s design philosophy was heavily inspired by mathematical concepts used by Leonard da Vinci, such as the golden ratio and the Fibonacci series, which he used as the basis for his architectural proportions.
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Works
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Philips Pavilion
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Notre Dame du Haut
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Carpenter Center of Visual Arts
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Pierre Lescot
• was one of the most famous architects practicing during the French Renaissance, and is often remembered as the man responsible for realizing ‘pure and correct’ classical architecture in France. He is most famous for his designs for the Louvre, a section now referred to as the Lescot Wing.
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The Louvre Museum
• The Louvre Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world, and almost certainly the most famous and situated in a grand 16th century palace in the heart of Paris.