Charles Baillairgé belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Charles Baillairgé as architect, land surveyor, civil engineer, and an author (1826–1906).
Charles Baillairgé was born at Quebec City in 1826. His recorded nationality is Canada.
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, civil engineer and surveyor.
Among his best-known works are Church of the Holy Name of Mary of Sainte-Marie, pavillon Charles-Baillairgé and La Décollation-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
That the work was built in Canada shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Charles Baillairgé died in 1906, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Church of the Holy Name of Mary of Sainte-Marie
- Notable work: pavillon Charles-Baillairgé
- Notable work: La Décollation-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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