In the history of building, Pierre de Montreuil is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pierre de Montreuil as French architect (1200–1267).
Pierre de Montreuil was born at Montreuil in 1200. His recorded nationality is France.
Medieval construction was collective and slow - cathedrals outlasted the men who began them - and the master mason was a craftsman rather than an author.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Notre-Dame de Paris. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Pierre de Montreuil died in 1267, aged 67. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Notre-Dame de Paris
