Jean-Baptiste Rondelet is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Jean-Baptiste Rondelet as French architect.
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet was born at Lyon in 1743. 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, essayist and textbook writer.
His best-known building is Panthéon. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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-Baptiste Rondelet died in 1829, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Panthéon
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
