Marie-Joseph Peyre is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Marie-Joseph Peyre as French architect.
Marie-Joseph Peyre was born at Paris in 1730. 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, general contractor and illustrator.
His best-known building is Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome.
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.
Marie-Joseph Peyre died in 1785, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
- Prix de Rome
- Trained at Académie Royale d'Architecture
