Henri Labrouste[ANrE´ lAbrOOst´] Pronunciation Key, 1801–75, French architect.
He was among the first to make effective architectural use of metal construction, as in his treatment of the reading room of the BibliothEque Ste GeneviEve (1843–50), Paris, in which the ceiling domes were supported upon an exposed iron framework.
Labrouste also made extensive alterations on the BibliothEque nationale.
Labrouste was one of the most significant exponents of this trend at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and went as far as to oppose architecture expressing the qualities of the materials and the methods used for its construction to the Academic idea of abstract composition.
Considering this and Labrouste’s practical ideas stated in the Paestum temples restoration regarding the need to adapt architecture to purpose, location, and climate, it is obvious that the analysis of the bridge project must relate to the function of passage.
Labrouste’s project Pont destiné à réunir la France à l’Italie is analysed in depth as a fifth year envoi by Neil Levine in ’The Romantic Idea of Architectural Legibility: HenriLabrouste and the Neo-Grec’, Drexler, A. (ed.), The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, pp.
The French architect-engineer Pierre François HenriLabrouste (1801-1875), a major innovator in the field of cast-iron construction, was a leader of the romantic-classicist school of architecture.
Labrouste's attitude to design is summed up in a quotation from Souvenirs d'Henri Labrouste (1928): "In architecture, form must always be appropriate to function....
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(1) Théodore Labrouste and (2) HenriLabrouste were younger sons of Alexandre Labrouste (1762–1836), a member of the Conseil des Cinq-Cents and the Tribunal during the Revolution and a financial administrator during the Restoration.
Having originally contemplated a career as a painter, HenriLabrouste followed his brother Théodore into architecture, entering the atelier of Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer and Louis-Hippolyte Lebas in Paris in 1818; he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts the following year at the age of 18.
Together with Duban, Labrouste also formed a close association with LOUIS DUC and Léon Vaudoyer (see VAUDOYER, (2)), and the four of them began to study Classical architecture from a much wider perspective than the academic, ideological tradition, taking into account historical, social and environmental factors that they claimed had influenced its development.
The development of new kinds of architecture was advanced by the use of iron (wrought and cast iron) and later steel.
In about 1855 Henry Bessemer invented a new method of making steel in quantity so that it could be used profitably for large building components.
Also important in the appearance of new architecture was the increased used of glazing in 19th century buildings; metal can hold larger panels of glass than wood could.
Bibliotheque Nationale, by HenriLabrouste, at Paris, France, 1862 to 1868.
Flats at Rue des Amiraux, by Henri Sauvage, at Paris, France, 1923 to 1925.
Antoine Hospital Kitchen, by Henry Ciriani, at Paris, France, 1983 to 1985.
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In spite of the wretched conditions in which they lived, neglecting the building and the garden, it was these artists of the Ecole de Paris who made La Ruche famous, along with writers such as Apollinaire, Cendrars and Max Jacob.
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University of Lyon II Born in Switzerland into a family of goldsmiths, Pierre-Victor Galland followed in his family's footsteps, before taking up an artistic career.
He initially signed up to become an architect at the atelier of HenriLabrouste, later joining that of the painter Drolling where he met Besnard, Chaplin and Paul Baudry.
In 1849 he collaborated with Labrouste in the organisation of the public ceremonies which took place during the return of Napoleon's corpse to Paris.
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At the age of 19 he began a three year apprenticeship with master carpenters in Berlin.
He headed for Paris in 1842 where he studied under HenriLabrouste.
Lienau made his way to America in the fall of 1848 on a boat chartered by his brother Micheal, who had already established a New York firm called Lienau and Co.
Pierre Francois HenriLabrouste was born in Paris in 1801.
He enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1819 under Vaudoyer and Levas, and won the Grand Prix in 1924.
His work also embodies the ideals of writer Victor Hugo, who believed that architecture is a form of communication, like literature, and that in "organic phases" of construction it expressed a coherent body of social belief.
The problem of color in architecture: Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867) proposes polychromy based on investigations of Greek temples in Sicily.
Radicals of Ecole: Emile-Jacques Gilbert, FÈlix-Jacques Duban, LÈon Vaudoyer, HenriLabrouste and Viollet-le-Duc..Illustration of departure from classicism: The main reading room, BibliothËque Nationale, Paris (1859-68)
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"One of the greatest cultural buildings of the nineteenth century to use iron in a prominent, visible way was unquestionably the Bibliotheque Ste.-Genevieve in Paris, designed by HenriLabrouste and built in 1842-50.
The large (278 by 69 feet) two-storied structure filling a wide, shallow site is deceptively simple in scheme: the lower floor is occupied by stacks to the left, rare-book storage and office space to the right, with a central vestibule and stairway leading to the reading room which fills the entire upper story.
