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Alphand, Jean Charles Adolphe
architect; b. October 26, 1817; d. 1891.

In 1854 Alphand was called to Paris by Baron Haussmann as chief engineer of the promenades and plantations. He arranged the Bois de Boulogne, the Parc Monceau, the Bois de Vincennes, the Champs Elysées, the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, the Buttes Chaumont and the Parc de Montsouris. He took a leading part in the organization of the Exposition of 1889. Alphand published Les Promenades de Paris (2 vols., folio, 1868-1873) and Exposition universelle, 1889; Palais, jardins, etc. (2 vols., folio, 1892).

Altdorfer, Albrecht
painter, engraver, architect; b. about 1480; d. about 1538.

Altdorfer, the famous painter and engraver, held the office of architect of the city of Regensburg, Bavaria, but no building of importance can now be ascribed to him.

Re: Hejduk
2004.02.16 11:49

Boullee, Hejduk and Rossi make a very interesting combination. I never seriously thought of them in tandem before, but just now when I looked up at my bookshelf, the Boullee book is right next to the seven Hejduk books, which are right next to the five Rossi books--who knew? I've seen two Rossi projects and one Hejduk project, all in Berlin. All three architects are now dead.

death of Rossi
death of Hejduk

Boullee was born 12 February 1728 and died 6 February 1799. Boullee never married.

Piranesi had some influence on Boullee, and Boullee had some influence on Gilly and subsequently Schinkel. Of the architects mentioned so far, all were prolific designers, but only Rossi and Schinkel are prolific in the built sense.

Hejduk's Bye House, now built in Holland at 1.2 the scale of the original design, has long been one of my favorite designs--I constructed a computer model of the project 1990 or 1991. I hadn't heard that it turned out to be 'uninhabitable'.

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