In the history of building, Jean-Antoine Alavoine is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jean-Antoine Alavoine as French architect (1778-1834).
Jean-Antoine Alavoine was born at Paris in 1778. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and sculptor.
His best-known building is July Column. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Knight 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.
Jean-Antoine Alavoine died in 1834, aged 56. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: July Column
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
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