Jean-Baptiste Rondelet

Jean -Baptiste Rondelet ( born June 4, 1743 Lyon, † September 26, 1829 in Paris) was a French architect and architectural theorist.

Life

Rondelet was a student of Jacques- Germain Soufflot and Jacques -François Blondel.

Rondelet has contributed to the construction of the Église de Sainte -Geneviève in Paris, now the Panthéon. First, he has worked under Jacques- Germain Soufflot and continued with his death in 1780 the construction work until its completion in 1790. In particular, he is responsible for the final construction of the drum dome and subsequent repair work 1806-1812 at the Pantheon. Together with Emiland -Marie Gauthey he examined the structural damage by means of scientific and technical methods.

As a teacher Rondelet looked at the Polytechnic of Paris, where he introduced the discipline civil engineering. Since 1799 he has taught at the Académie des Beaux -Arts. Its special merits lie in the field of design theory. He wrote mathematical theorems for the static calculations of walls and building structure. Furthermore go to him early attempts to the material properties of building materials back, for example, their compressive strength.

He was in 1814 by Louis XVIII. appointed a member of the Legion of Honour and in 1816 a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts.

Works (selection)

• La science de la construction of edifices, 1785
• Traité pratique de l'art et théoretique de bâtir, 7 vols 1802-1817; 2 edition 1855 5 vols ( in German 1832)
• Memoire sur la marine des Anciens et sur ​​les rangs de plusieurs navires a rames. Paris 1820