Louis Marie Cordonnier practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Louis Marie Cordonnier as French architect (1854–1940).
Louis Marie Cordonnier was born at Haubourdin in 1854. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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 and designer.
His work is associated with eclectic architecture.
Among his best-known works are Église Saint-Vaast de Béthune, Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse, Lisieux and Peace Palace. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and 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.
Louis Marie Cordonnier died in 1940, 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: Église Saint-Vaast de Béthune
- Notable work: Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse, Lisieux
- Notable work: Peace Palace
- Notable work: Opéra de Lille
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Movement: eclectic architecture
