Salomon de Brosse is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Salomon de Brosse as French architect (1571–1626).
Salomon de Brosse was born in 1571. His recorded nationality is France.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
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.
Salomon de Brosse died in 1626, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
