Royal Academy Of Architecture
The Royal Academy of French architecture was created on 30 December 1671 by Louis XIV , king of France. Inspired by Jean-Baptiste Colbert , it had the first director, architect and theorist Francois Blondel (1618-1686), architect of the city of Paris.
First established in the Palais Royal and the Louvre from 1692, it has a school of architecture.
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For forty-six years, the king gives patents to those he considers worthy to enter this company, including its first architect was the director.
In 1717, the Duc d'Antin , superintendent of royal buildings, to confirm that the Academy of Architecture by letters patent, with statutes and regulations that gives him the right to appoint by election.
The number of academicians from 8 to 24, with two classes, the first of ten architects, a teacher and a secretary, and the second of twelve architects. In 1728, the second class is increased by eight members in 1756, she lost four in passing in the first.
The Academy is suppressed by the king in 1767 for protesting against the illegal appointment of Charles Wailly.
Reorganized by new letters patent in 1775, she was then made:
- of 32 architects, divided into two classes, the first of which a director, a professor of architecture and a professor of mathematics;
- of 10 honorary members, associates free;
- of 12 foreign correspondents or associates. The superintendent of buildings continues, as before, to appoint the Permanent Secretary.
Abolished in 1793 on a proposal from the Abbe Gregoire and Jacques-Louis David , this academy was reconstituted within the Institute of France established in 1795, architecture being one of the sections of the class of literature and the fine arts. It was then reorganized under its present form in 1816 in the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France.
Members of the Academy
The primitive members of the Royal Academy of Architecture are Franois Blondel , Francois Le Vau , Liberal Bruant , Daniel Gittard , Lepautre Antoine , Pierre II Mignard , Franois II Orbay and Andre Flibien Directors In 1694, The Royal Academy of Architecture decided to organize education in the form of lessons, and programs of assistance provided monthly. Prizes and medals are awarded from 1701. In 1720, a grand prize of the Academy is awarded each year, which is the forerunner of what will be the Prix de Rome. The winner is granted a scholarship to stay at the Academy of France in Rome. Professors are more established academics. The school sees the Academy competed from the 1740s by some architects qu'organisent tutoring at home. This is the case of Jean-Laurent Legeay or of Jacques-Francois Blondel, who, by creating an independent school, the School of Arts, manages to monopolize with his students most of the major Academy Award. At the Revolution , the National Convention decided to entrust the teaching of architecture at the Polytechnic , as with Professor Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. Teaching is gradually restored in the new National School of Fine Arts. School of the Royal Academy of Architecture
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