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Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer (6 February 1829, Paris – 7 February 1914, Antibes) was a French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris.
Life
Entering the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1847, he apprenticed in the practice of Guillaume Abel Blouet. Winning the lauréat du premier grand of the Prix de Rome in 1854, he resided at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici from 20 January 1855 to 31 December 1858.
He spent his career as a public architect with several prestigious posts, including Architect of the City of Paris, inspector-general of buildings, member of the Conseil supérieur for prisons and of the Conseil for collèges and lycées, diocesan architect for several départements, and finally teaching at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, from which he also ran his own practice. Notable among his pupils were Jacques Hermant, and the Americans Louis Sullivan, Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr. and Arthur Rotch.
He designed several typical 19th century buildings in Paris : lycées (including the Lycée Buffon), churches (including Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil, and Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge) and the Prison de la Santé.
In 1867 he was elected to the seventh seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, architecture section, succeeding Alphonse de Gisors. He is buried in the cimetière Saint-Véran at Avignon.
Work
- 1861-1867 : Prison de la Santé in the 13th arrondissement of Paris
- 1865-1870 : Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (an inscribed MH)
- 1873 : primary école of the Ville de Paris, today the collège Alberto Giacometti in the 14th arrondissement of Paris
- 1873 : monument to the battle of Champigny at Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne)
- 1877-1879 : Protestant temple of Belleville, 97 rue Julien-Lacroix in the 20th arrondissement of Paris
- 1877-1892 : église Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
- 1879 : Episcopal palace at Beauvais
- 1882 : Villa Collin for Armand Collin (a watchmaker and friend of Vaudremer's) in Fourqueux (Yvelines) (classed MH)
- 1882-1887 : boys' lycée, today the lycée Champollion at Grenoble
- 1883-1886 : girls' lycée, now the lycée Michelet at Montauban
- 1885 : collège Guettard at Étampes (Essonne)
- 1885-1888 : boys' lycée, now the Lycée Buffon in the 15th arrondissement of Paris
- 1886-1888 : former girls' lycée, today the lycée Molière in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
- 1890-1895 : Greek Orthodox church, 5-7 rue Bizet in the 16th arrondissement of Paris (inscribed MH)
- 1897 : flats on 27 avenue Georges-Mandel, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris (inscribed MH)
- 1900-1903 : Church of Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts in the 12th arrondissement of Paris