Next spring the Museum of Modern Art will debut an exhibition of the 19th-century French Beaux-Arts architect Henri Labrouste. The A press image for the show. Next spring the Museum of Modern Art will ...

Grounds of the Columbian Exposition, Chicago , 1893, a Beaux-Arts extravaganza. One in a series of articles completed by BiLLY BoY Enteprises ...

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 from ...

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MoMA's upcoming exhibition Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light celebrates the impact of this 19th century architect on space, materials, luminosity and on great places of assembly. The ...

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) While the New York Public Library is reconsidering their architecture through a ...

The name Labrouste is synonymous with two libraries in Paris, the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (1850) and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1868), both of which feature astonishing reading rooms ...

Outside architectural circles, the name of Henri Labrouste (1801-75) is scarcely known in America. This undeserved fate is now being set to rights by a splendid exhibition at New York's Museum of ...

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 ...

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