Armand-Albert Rateau belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Armand-Albert Rateau as French designer and architect (1882–1938).
Armand-Albert Rateau was born at 3rd arrondissement of Paris in 1882. His recorded nationality is France.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Château de la Croë. 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.
Armand-Albert Rateau died in 1938, aged 56. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Château de la Croë
