LABROUSTE, HENRI


Meaning of LABROUSTE, HENRI in English

born May 11, 1801, Paris, France died June 24, 1875, Fontainebleau French architect important for his early use of iron frame construction. Labrouste entered the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1819, won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1824, and spent the period from 1825 to 1830 in Italy, after which he opened a studio in Paris. Labrouste is primarily remembered for the two Parisian libraries he designed. The Bibliothque Sainte-Genevive, built between 1843 and 1850, is still admired for the attractiveness and restraint of its decoration and for the sensitive use of exposed iron structural elements (columns and arches). Labrouste's second library project, the reading room of the Bibliothque Nationale, was constructed between 1862 and 1868. Its roof consists of nine decorated metal domes supported by slender cast-iron columns.

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