Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Roquetaillade castle in the Bordeaux region.
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Born | Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-01-27)27 January 1814 Paris, France |
Died | 17 September 1879(1879-09-17) (aged 65) Lausanne, Switzerland |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards | Royal Gold Medal (1864) |
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His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new generation of architects, including all the major Art Nouveau artists: Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde, Henri Sauvage and the École de Nancy, Paul Hankar, Otto Wagner, Eugène Grasset, Émile Gallé, and Hendrik Petrus Berlage. He also influenced the first modern architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Auguste Perret, Louis Sullivan, and Le Corbusier, who considered Viollet-le-Duc as the father of modern architecture.[1] The English architect William Burges admitted in his late life "We all cribbed on Viollet-le-Duc even though no one could read French".[2]
His writings also influenced John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts movement.[3] At the International Exhibition of 1862 in London, the aesthetic works of Edward Burne-Jones, Christina Rossetti, Philip Webb, William Morris, Simeon Solomon, and Edward Poynter were directly influenced from drawings in Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionary.[4]