Ennemond Alexandre Petitot practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Ennemond Alexandre Petitot as French architect (1727–1801).
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot was born at Lyon in 1727. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at 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, engraver and graphic artist.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome.
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.
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot died in 1801, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Prix de Rome
- Trained at Académie Royale d'Architecture
