Françoise Choay

Françoise Choay (29 March 1925 – 8 January 2025) was a French architectural and urban historian and theorist. From 1973 on, she was a professor at the University of Paris.^[1] She was also a visiting professor at numerous universities in the United States, Belgium and Italy.^[2]

Choay was born on 29 March 1925 in Paris. She was awarded the Grand Prix national du Livre d'architecture in 1981 and 2007.^[1][3]

Choay died on 8 January 2025, at the age of 99.^[4]

Publications

• — (1960) Le Corbusier, George Braziller ^[5]
• — (1969) The Modern City: Planning in the Nineteenth Century, George Braziller^[6]
• — (1992) L'allégorie du patrimoine, Seuil^[7]
• — (1997) The Rule and the Model: On the Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT Press^[8]
• — (2001) The invention of the historic monument, Cambridge University Press^[9]
• — (2009), Le Patrimoine en questions: Anthologie pour un combat (in French), OL 22798446W, Wikidata Q48757378