Alexis de Chateauneuf is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Alexis de Chateauneuf as German architect and urban planner (1799–1853).
Alexis de Chateauneuf was born at Hamburg in 1799. His recorded nationality is Hamburg.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Hamburg shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alexis de Chateauneuf died in 1853, aged 54. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
