Étienne-Hippolyte Godde
Étienne- Hippolyte Godde ( born December 26, 1781 Breteuil, † December 7, 1869 in Paris) was a French architect of Neoclassicism and 1813-1830 city architect of Paris.
Family
Étienne- Hippolyte Godde was the son of the contractor Alexandre Godde, in Amiens worked from 1796 to 1819 and whose family has been resident since the 17th century in Breteuil, in the Oise. The eldest son of Étienne- Hippolyte Godde was also an architect. His daughter married the architect Lucien- Tirté Van Cleemputte.
Career
1796 joined Etienne -Hippolyte Godde in the Académie d'Architecture Spéciale the Académie des Beaux -Arts, a, the successor to the Royal Academy in 1793 closed d'architecture. His teachers were Claude -Mathieu Delagardette, who had written a treatise on the ruins of Paestum, and Jacques -Guillaume Legrand.
Godde 1802 won the first prize in the competition for the Grand Prix d'architecture and joined the staff of Jacques -Guillaume Legrand, who exercised the function of the building inspector in the former department of Seine. Under Jacques Molinos, the then city architect of Paris, Godde was nominated for artist of the city of Paris. 1805 his first contract for the construction of the church Saint -Nicolas in Boves the Somme countryside. Built in the neo-classical style church became the model of his later churches.
1813 joined Etienne -Hippolyte Godde succeeds Alexandre -Théodore Brongniart as Chief Inspector of the Department of cemeteries and churches in Paris. In 1823 he was admitted as a member of the Commission of the Arts. Under his leadership, numerous churches have been restored in Paris and partly extended. He left with the participation of Jean -Baptiste Lesueur perform conversions on the old Paris town hall, the one burnt down during the Paris Commune. In addition to 30 churches created Etienne- Hippolyte Godde over twenty palaces, among other things, for the banker Jonas Hager man in the streets Rue de Londres and Rue d' Athènes in the Quartier de l'Europe in the 8th and 9th arrondissement of Paris.
During the restoration of churches Etienne- Hippolyte Godde encountered increasing criticism. Above all, Jean -Baptiste- Antoine Lassus and Eugène Viollet -le- Duc accused him of lack of knowledge of Gothic architecture and a too strong neoclassical character. Its design has been pejoratively referred to as style goddique than classical reshaping of the Gothic.
Among the students of Etienne -Hippolyte Godde include Charles -François Canda, Michel -Ange -Adolphe Mangot, François- Léon Liberge, Émile -Antoine Gencourt and Henri Labrouste. The churches of Paris Notre- Dame-de- Bercy, Ste -Marie des Batignolles, Notre -Dame-de -Lorette ( by the architect Louis -Hippolyte Lebas ) and Saint -Vincent -de- Paul ( Jakob Ignaz Hittorff ) are in the successions of buildings Goddes.