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Jean Nicolas Louis David Durand
b. Paris, 1760;
d. Thiais, Val-de-Marne, 1834.
Influential theoretician; Neo-Classical “Rationalist”. Durand’s parents were poor and he studied architecture through the generosity of patrons. He entered the office of Boullee in 1776 and became his favourite pupil. He earned enough to enroll at the Academie d’Architecture and was placed second in the Prix [...]

Thumb Family - Michael Thumb, Christian Thumb & Peter Thumb
Michael Thumb, b. Bezau, Austria, c.1640, d. 1690;
Christian Thumb, b. Bezau, 1683, d. 1726;
Peter Thumb, b. 1681, d. 1766.
Thumb Family - Austrian famous architects and masons. Michael Thumb was a founder of the Austrian Voralberger school of architects, noted mainly for a large series of Benedictine [...]