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    Peace Memorial Park. His engagement with the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne in the 1950s made him one of the first Japanese architects to...
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    Jules Hardouin-Mansart (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    of his life. Soon afterward became a member of the Académie royale d'architecture. In 1678, he became director of the work at Versailles. and the most...
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    Jacques-Germain Soufflot (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    Panthéon is his most famous work, but the Hôtel Marigny built for his young patron (1768–1771) across from the Élysée Palace, is a better definition of Soufflot's...
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    Hélène de Mandrot (category Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members)
    castle to organize artist reunions such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne in 1928 and the Congrès international du cinéma indépendant...
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    Ministry of Culture records of reliquary and chapel archtitecture: "Décor d'architecture de la chapelle Sainte-Honorine". www.pop.culture.gouv.fr (in French)...
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    Ange-Jacques Gabriel (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    Bordeaux. The young Ange-Jacques became a member of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1728, and assisted his father on the Place de la Bourse. He became...
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    Farah Pahlavi (category École Spéciale d'Architecture alumni)
    Razi, she pursued an interest in architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, where she was a student of Albert Besson. Many Iranian students...
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    François Le Vau (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    was a French architect and a founding member of the Académie Royale d'Architecture (established in 1671). He is also known for being the youngest brother...
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    away; for its design it drew upon an engraving in Jean Barbet's Livre d'architecture (1633); Newman, "Strayed from the Queen's House?" Architectural History...
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    took courses in architecture in Paris. He attended the Académie royale d'architecture. In 1750 he issued his engraved folio volume Plans, coupes et élévations...
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    Alvar Aalto (category Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members)
    Sven Markelius, Aalto became a member of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929 and...
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    François d'Orbay (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    1671 d'Orbay became one of the founding members of the Académie Royale d'Architecture and that same year designed the portal of the Hôpital de la Trinité...
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    has a terrace. Since 1981, the building also hosts Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, association that organises exhibitions and knowledge exchange about...
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    of Brussels. Guimard was trained at the prestigious Académie royale d'architecture in Paris. There he participated at the Concours de fin d'année twice:...
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    Charles de Wailly (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    was accepted as a member of the first class of the Académie royale d'architecture and, in 1771, was accepted in the Académie royale de Peinture et de...
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    also the first Asian representative of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) in 1947 and was one of the founding members of the architectural...
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    Neoclassic style. Born in Paris, Bélanger attended the Académie Royale d'Architecture (1764–1766) where he studied under Julien-David Le Roy and Pierre Contant...
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    Richard Mique (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    have Mique placed on the payroll of the Bâtiments du roi. Following his patron's death in February 1766, Mique was called to France the following October...
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    Friès, « Notre-Dame de Paris (Travaux de restauration) », Encyclopédie d'architecture, 1st series, vol. 9, July 1859, p. 109–110 (in French). Read online...
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    York, 15 December 2010. Stool from Compagnie Générale des Céramiques d'Architecture (1898), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. An...
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    Institute of Canada, Ottawa (2025)  France: Silver Medal of the Académie d'Architecture (1991)  France: Insignia of Honour, International Union of Architects...
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    Académie de Musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'Architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671), to form the Académie des...
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    Claude Nicolas Ledoux (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    architects introduced Ledoux to their affluent clientele. One of Ledoux's first patrons was the Baron Crozat de Thiers, an immensely wealthy connoisseur who commissioned...
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  • Araldo Cossutta (category Members of the Académie d'architecture)
    and in 2010 he was elected as a foreign member of the French Académie d'architecture. The Christian Science Center (1973) won the 1975 Harleston Parker Medal...
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    (Syrie) 633 A.H. = 1236 E.C. (dissertation). ResearchGate. Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture. Retrieved September 14, 2021, from https://www.researchgate...
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    Santiago Calatrava (category Members of the Académie d'architecture)
    performing, visual and media arts, as well as authors, art historians and patrons of the arts. "Senior Fellows – Design Futures Council". Design Intelligence...
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    de voyages, ed. Pierre-Marie Auzas (1971) LeMoine, Bertrand, Guide d'architecture, France, 20e siecle, Picard, Paris 2000 Jim Ring, Riviera, The Rise...
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    d’archives d’architecture du XXe siècle. HENRI SAUVAGE (1873-1932) - Notices biographiques (PDF) (in French). Institut français d’architecture. Sauvage...
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    Eleb (1999), Portrait de ville : Casablanca, Paris: Institut Français d'Architecture Comité des foires du Maroc Auteur du texte (15 August 1917). "France-Maroc :...
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    next decade, 2020 on. This remodel is funded in part by an anonymous US patron who donated €20 million to a building project known as Orsay Grand Ouvert...
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