François d'Orbay is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists François d'Orbay as French architect (1634–1697).
François d'Orbay was born at Paris in 1634. His recorded nationality is France.
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 France shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
François d'Orbay died in 1697, aged 63. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
