Anatole de Baudot

French architect (1834-1915)

In the history of building, Anatole de Baudot is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Anatole de Baudot as French architect (1834-1915).

Anatole de Baudot was born at Sarrebourg in 1834. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.

He is recorded as architect, art historian and writer.

Among his best-known works are Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre and Église Saint-Lubin-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rambouillet. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.

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.

Anatole de Baudot died in 1915, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.

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