Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart as French architect (1739-1813).
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart was born at Paris in 1739. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Collège de Beauvais and Académie Royale d'Architecture.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect.
His work is associated with neoclassicism.
Among his best-known works are Père Lachaise Cemetery and Palais Brongniart. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in France shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart died in 1813, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Notable work: Palais Brongniart
- Movement: Neoclassicism
- Trained at Collège de Beauvais and Académie Royale d'Architecture
