Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Illustration — Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (Paris, 18 September 1760 – Thiais, 31 December 1834) was a French writer, teacher and architect. He was an important figure in Neoclassicism, and his system of design using simple modular elements anticipated modern industrialized building components. Having spent periods working for the architect Étienne-Louis Boullée and the civil engineer Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, he became a Professor of Architecture at the École Polytechnique in 1795.
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Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
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- 1760
- Died
- 1834
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- France
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- architect
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Illustration — Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (Paris, 18 September 1760 – Thiais, 31 December 1834) was a French writer, teacher and architect. He was an important figure in Neoclassicism, and his system of design using simple modular elements anticipated modern industrialized building components. Having spent periods working for the architect Étienne-Louis Boullée and the civil engineer Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, he became a Professor of Architecture at the École Polytechnique in 1795.
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1760
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand was born in 1760.
1821
Partie graphique des cours d'architecture faits a l'école royale polytechnique depuis sa réorganisation; précédée d'un sommaire des lecons relatives a ce nouveau travail. Par J.N.L. Durand.. (1821) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1834
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand died at Thiais.
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- Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834), The Emergence of Modern Architecture, 2004
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- JEAN-NICOLAS-LOUIS DURAND: MACHINE OF ARCHITECTURE, Urban construction and architecture, 2018
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