Françoise Choay
French architecture and urban historian (b.1929)
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| Intro | French architecture and urban historian (b.1929) | |
| Places | France | |
| is | Historian | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 29 March 1925, Paris, Île-de-France, France | |
| Age | 99 years |
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Biography
Françoise Choay (born 29 March 1925, Paris) is a French architectural and urban historian and theorist. Since 1973 she has been a professor at the University of Paris. She has also been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the United States, Belgium and Italy. Choay was awarded the Grand Prix national du Livre d'architecture in 1981 and 2007.
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- 1960 Le Corbusier, George Braziller
- 1969 The Modern City: Planning in the Nineteenth Century, George Braziller
- 1997 The Rule and the Model: On the Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT Press
- 2001 The invention of the historic monument, Cambridge University Press