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Villa Savoye, Tower of Shadows, plans.
Abadie, Paul, the Elder
architect; b. July 22, 1783, at Bordeaux, France; d. December 3, 1868.
In 1805 he entered the atelier of Percier, in Paris. In 1818 he was appointed architect of the city of Angoulême and the department of Charente. At Angoulême he built the palais de justice (1825), the hôtel of the prefecture (1828), the lycée, the grain market.
Abadie. Paul, the Younger
architect; b. November 9, 1812 at Paris; d. August 2, 1884.
A son of Paul Abadie the Elder. In 1835 he entered the École des Beaux Arts (Paris) under the direction of Achille Leclère. In 1848 he was made architect of the dioceses of Angoulême, Pèrigueux, and La Rochelle, and in 1861 inspecteur général des édifices diocésains. Abadie was interested in the restoration of many mediæval monuments, especially the Church of S. Front at Périgueux and the Cathedral of Angoulême. He built also the Hôtel de Ville at Angoulême. In 1874 he replaced Viollet-le-Duc, as architect of Notre Dame (Paris). He began the Church of the Sacré Cœur on Montmartre (Paris), but did not finish it.
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Developing a thesis (and metathesis?) - brainstorming help!
2009.06.03 09:50
And it's not even Reenactment Season yet!
double your theatrics, double your fun
read this morning:
"When the Convention moved from Versailles to Paris, it reopened in a new hemicycle built into the old palace theatre, the Salle des Machines of the Tuileries, designed by the revolutionary Jacques-Pierre Gisors, even if the semicircular layout, the high colonnade and zenital lighting followed the model of the sober, neo-antique anatomy theatre in the Ecole de la Chirurgie. Although the assembly hall was a bit makeshift (the statues which ornamented its walls were all painted simulations), the hemicycle found favour and was copied when the chamber was enlarged and rebuilt in the Palais-Bourbon. Two centuries later it still serves the Chamber of Deputies. With its obvious division into left and right, it became the model for many parliamentary chambers all over the world--a curious fate for an emulation of an anatomy theatre."
For sure a significant note within "Surgical Double Theater".
now playing:
Siamese, wo bist du, too
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