Augustin-Charles d'Aviler

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Augustin-Charles d'Aviler (* 1653 in Paris ; † June 23, 1701 in Montpellier ) was a French architect.

Life

D'Aviler came from a family of the noblesse de robe , the French official nobility. He was a student of the architect Jean-François Blondel . In 1674 he received a scholarship to study at the Académie de France à Rome . The ship that was supposed to bring him to Rome was captured by corsairs and he was imprisoned in Algiers and later in Tunis for 18 months . Eventually he was able to study with Charles Errard in Rome from 1676 to 1679 .

D'Aviler translated Vincenzo Scamozzi's standard architectural work L'idea della architettura universale in 1685, which is based on the column arrangements by Andrea Palladio and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola . He received his practical training from 1684 to 1689 with Jules Hardouin-Mansart . D'Aviler was sponsored by War Minister Louvois , who in 1691 enabled him to publish the two-volume standard work Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole . D'Aviler settled in Montpellier, where he a. a. built the Porte du Peyrou designed by François d'Orbay . In Montpellier, the Saint-Denis church is also his work. The Hôtel de ville de Nîmes is also one of his works .

Works

  • Augustin-Charles d'Aviler (translator): Les cinq ordres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi , Paris 1685 Digitized
  • Leonhard Christoph Sturm (translator and editor): Detailed instructions on the whole civil architecture: What in addition to those five orders by J. Bar. De Vignola, as well as his and the famous Mich. Angelo, noblest buildings, everything that may appear in architecture ... touches, explained with clear examples, and explained with beautiful cracks , Amsterdam 1699 digital copy of the Heidelberg University Library
  • Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole
  • Dictionnaire d'architecture civile et hydraulique et des arts qui en dépendent , Paris 1755 gallica digitized

literature

  • Bettina Köhler: Architecture is the art of building well: Charles Augustin D'Aviler's Cours d'Architecture qui comprend les Ordres de Vignole (studies and texts on the history of architectural theory), 1997

Web links

Commons : Augustin-Charles d'Aviler  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les cinq ordres d'architecture ; Digitized
  2. ↑ digitized version at architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr; accessed on May 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Aviler, Augustin-Charles d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Augustin-Charles Daviler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1701
Place of death Montpellier