Henri Labrouste was a glum and scholarly man, a nineteenth-century French architect who competed, often unsuccessfully, for state commissions, built a couple of libraries, and rarely ventured far ...

Henri Labrouste (French, 1801-1875). Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, 1838-1850. Steel trusses of the reading room. Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.

Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) spent six years studying architecture in Rome, looking not just at ancient stunning structures, but the way they reflected their local use and culture.

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light will be the first solo exhibition of Labrouste's work in the United States to date and will highlight his work as a milestone in the evolution of modern ...

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 ...

The first phase of a major renovation of the Bibliothèque Nationale Richelieu includes the legendary reading room that Henri Labrouste completed in 1868. search. Search search close search cart ...

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street, New York Through June 24. The name Labrouste is synonymous with two libraries in Paris, the Bibliothèque ...

Next spring the Museum of Modern Art will debut an exhibition of the 19th-century French Beaux-Arts architect Henri Labrouste. The show will feature over 200 works, from drawings to watercolors to … ...

The triumph of Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Nationale is widely acknowledged. A quarter-century earlier, however, he designed the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, as deserving of recognition as ...

When the architect Henri Labrouste showed the marvellous reading room of the BibliothèqueNationale in Paris to the public for the first time in the middle of the 19 th century, the enthusiasm of ...