Louis Michel Thibault is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Louis Michel Thibault as French architect (1750-1815).
Louis Michel Thibault was born at Picquigny in 1750. 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 and engineer.
His work is associated with neoclassicism.
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.
Louis Michel Thibault died in 1815, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: Neoclassicism
