Philibert de l'Orme

Philibert de l'Orme (Known as "Philibert Delorme")

Renaissance Master Architect, Designer of Château d'Anet and Tuileries Palace

Born c. 1514

Lyon, France

Passed Away Jan 08, 1570 Paris, Kingdom of France

Lifespan 55 years old

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"A true architect must not copy the ancients blindly; he must invent new structures fitted to the soil, sky, and climate of his fatherland."

Archival Overview

Greatest French Renaissance architectural theorist and engineer who served as royal architect to Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, designing Château d'Anet, the Tuileries Palace, and inventing curved timber construction.

Biographical Record

Son of a Lyon master mason, De l'Orme studied classical Roman ruins in Italy under Pope Paul III before returning to France in 1536. King Henry II appointed him Superintendent of Royal Buildings in 1548, overseeing Fontainebleau, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and Villers-Cotterêts.

For Henry's mistress Diane de Poitiers, he built Château d'Anet, featuring the innovative frontispiece and cryptoporticus. In his 1561 treatise Nouvelles Inventions pour bien bastir, he invented a revolutionary lightweight curved laminated timber roof framing technique ('charpente à petits bois') still known as the Delorme roof.

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Final Resting Place

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Church of Saint-Barthélemy (now lost)
Paris, France

                         GPS: 48.8550, 2.3450                    

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