Henri Labrouste

Henri Labrouste ( born May 11, 1801 in Paris, † June 26, 1875 in Fontainebleau ) was a French architect and pioneer of the iron construction.

Life

Labrouste learned in the studios of Vaudoyer and Lebas and at the Academy of Fine Arts and won the grand prize for architecture in 1824. Fruits of his immediately after this trip to Italy were nine drawings of Poseidon temple at Paestum (published in 1878, 21 boards ).

In 1829 he was inspector of works at the Palais des Beaux -Arts in Paris and received, after he had carried out several major buildings such as the Hospice of Lausanne ( 1837) and the Library of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris ( 1843-1850 ), also the construction of the National Library ( built from 1862-1868 ) transferred, on the construction of the interior of a model for similar institutions was by reference.

Labrouste was appointed to the Academy of Art on November 23, 1867, successor Jakob Ignaz Hittorffs.

Unlike other architects of his time such as Gottfried Semper, which largely rejected the visible use of the new material iron or held only in " lesser " buildings such as industrial buildings or concourses appropriate, shows Labrouste in its two Paris libraries were undisguised iron architectures.

Works

• Architect ( France)
• Member of the Legion of Honour ( Officer )
• Frenchman
• Born in 1801
• Died in 1875
• Man