Gilles-Marie Oppenord practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Gilles-Marie Oppenord as French architect (1672–1742).
Gilles-Marie Oppenord was born at Paris in 1672. 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, decorator and draftsperson.
His best-known building is Church of Saint-Sulpice. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Gilles-Marie Oppenord died in 1742, aged 70. 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 Saint-Sulpice
