Hugues Libergier practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Hugues Libergier as French architect.
Hugues Libergier was born at Reims in 1229. His recorded nationality is France.
Medieval construction was collective and slow - cathedrals outlasted the men who began them - and the master mason was a craftsman rather than an author.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Reims Cathedral and Old Church of Saint-Nicaise de Reims. 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.
Hugues Libergier died in 1263, aged 34. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Reims Cathedral
- Notable work: Old Church of Saint-Nicaise de Reims
