Henri Labrouste (French, 1801-1875 ... Labrouste's architecture pushed the capabilities of materials and building technologies. The sublime reading rooms of the two Parisian libraries, the ...

Henri Labrouste was a glum and scholarly man ... iron trusses to the I-beam austerity of Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and the steel honeycomb of Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower.

a masterwork of Henri Labrouste. With the transfer of millions of books and periodicals to Perrault’s library, these storied spaces were up for grabs. Several government agencies came up with a ...

The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, offers detailed and original analysis of these two libraries, as well as fascinating material related to ...

In the nineteenth century, the French architect Henri Labrouste pioneered the use of iron-frame construction, resulting in spaces of dramatic luminosity, including the skylit reading room of the ...