Jean-Camille Formigé practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Jean-Camille Formigé as French architect (1845–1926).
Jean-Camille Formigé was born at Le Bouscat in 1845. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.
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.
Among his best-known works are viaduc d'Austerlitz, pont de Bir-Hakeim and Crématorium-columbarium du Père-Lachaise. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: 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.
Jean-Camille Formigé died in 1926, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: viaduc d'Austerlitz
- Notable work: pont de Bir-Hakeim
- Notable work: Crématorium-columbarium du Père-Lachaise
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
