Frantz Jourdain belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Frantz Jourdain as French architect (1847–1935).
Frantz Jourdain was born at Antwerp in 1847. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Collège Stanislas de Paris and 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, writer and art critic.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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.
Frantz Jourdain died in 1935, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Trained at Collège Stanislas de Paris and Beaux-Arts de Paris
