Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau as French architect.
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau was born in 1520. His recorded nationality is France.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Château de Neuville. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau died in 1586, aged 66. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Château de Neuville
