Académie royale d’architecture

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The Académie royale d’architecture was a prestigious French royal institution established in the 17th century to formalize architectural education, theory, and standards under the authority of the monarchy.


Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf French cultural institution
architectural academy
royal academy
authorityOver official architectural standards for royal buildings
contributedTo codification of architectural orders
professionalization of architects in France
country France
dissolved 1793
dissolvedDuring French Revolution
fieldOfWork architectural theory
architecture
urban planning
foundedBy Louis XIV
foundedUnderAuthorityOf French monarchy
hasOrganizationalForm learned society
headquartersLocation Paris
historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
inception 1671
influenced French Baroque architecture
French Neoclassical architecture
French classical architecture
languageOfWorkOrName French
locatedIn Paris
memberOf Académies royales of the Ancien Régime
modelFor later European architectural academies
notableMember Ange-Jacques Gabriel
François Blondel
Germain Boffrand
Jacques-François Blondel
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Robert de Cotte
operatedInPoliticalEntity Kingdom of France
partOf French royal academies
purpose develop architectural theory
formalize architectural education
standardize architectural practice
replacedBy École des Beaux-Arts
selectionMethod appointment by the king
significantEvent suppression of the academy in 1793
supervisedBy Surintendance des Bâtiments du Roi
taughtDiscipline architectural drawing
architectural history
construction techniques
geometry
perspective

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Jean-Arnaud Raymond
educatedAt
Étienne-Louis Boullée ("Académie Royale d’Architecture")
employer
Louis XIV of France
founded
Jean-Arnaud Raymond
memberOf
École des Beaux-Arts
predecessor
Académie des Beaux-Arts ("Académie d’architecture")
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