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Julien-David LeRoy
French architect
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association with Bélanger
- In François-Joseph Bélanger
…Nollet and studied architecture under J.-D. Leroy. He visited England at least once, and the sketchbook that survives is a rare record of the view by a French architect of late 18th-century England.
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theory of architecture
- In architecture: Distinction between the history and theory of architecture
…by a French architecture student, Julien-David LeRoy. Faced with the problem of discussing Athenian buildings constructed in the time of Vitruvius, he decided to discuss them twice, by treating them separately under two different headings. Before this date, “history” was of architectural importance only as a means of justifying, by…
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