Louis-Pierre Baltard is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Louis-Pierre Baltard as French architect and engraver (1764-1846).
Louis-Pierre Baltard was born at Paris in 1764. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Académie Royale d'Architecture.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, engraver and painter.
His best-known building is Palais de justice historique de Lyon. 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.
Louis-Pierre Baltard died in 1846, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Palais de justice historique de Lyon
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Trained at Académie Royale d'Architecture
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