Hector-Martin Lefuel is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Hector-Martin Lefuel as French architect (1810-1880).
Hector-Martin Lefuel was born at Versailles in 1810. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at 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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour and 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.
Hector-Martin Lefuel died in 1880, aged 70. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Prix de Rome
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
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