Grandjean de Montigny practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Grandjean de Montigny as French architect.
Grandjean de Montigny was born at Paris in 1776. 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.
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.
Grandjean de Montigny died in 1850, 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
