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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle ...
Sep 13, 2024 · architecture. Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (born Jan. 27, 1814, Paris, France—died Sept. 17, 1879, Lausanne, Switz.) was a French Gothic Revival architect, restorer of French medieval buildings, and writer whose theories of rational architectural design linked the revivalism of the Romantic period to 20th-century Functionalism.
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Sep 25, 2021 · Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, one of the most famous French architects of the 19th century, was born in Paris in 1814. Eugène’s passion for architecture was rooted in his family. His grandfather was an architect, and his father was the Governor of Royal Residences in the Tuileries Palace.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, (born Jan. 27, 1814, Paris, France—died Sept. 17, 1879, Lausanne, Switz.), French Gothic Revival architect, restorer, and writer. After studying architecture and training as an archaeologist, he was placed in charge of restoring the abbey church at Vézelay (1840). He assisted in restoring the Sainte-Chapelle ...
Nov 2, 2015 · A contemporary of Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Charles Garnier, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century Gothic Revival architect, designer, architectural historian, theorist and painter, famous for his enthusiastically creative restorations of not only iconographic Parisian monuments, but monuments all over France and a few in bordering countries.
Feb 26, 2020 · A polymath, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le Duc (b. 1814–d. 1879), is best-known today as a restoration architect and champion of the Gothic style whose influential theoretical writings on form and function collected in the ten-volume Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (translated loosely as The ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879), French architect and theorist, consciously chose the Gothic style of architecture, not as a 19th-century revival style based on emotional associations but as a logical, reasoned, functional expression. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc considered that "The beauty of a structure … [lies in] the ...
