Happy Birthday Henri Labrouste!! French architect Henri Labrouste was born in 1801. He attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1824. He is most well known for the design of two prominent libraries, both in Paris. Both employ an innovative construction of light cast iron columns supporting an intricate roof structure of laced wires. He summed up his views on design, “In architecture, form must always be appropriate to function...a logical and expressive decoration must derive from the construction itself.”
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