Françoise Choay

Françoise Choay (29 March 1925 – 8 January 2025) was a French architectural and urban historian and theorist. From 1973 on, she was a professor at the University of Paris.^[1] She was also a visiting professor at numerous universities in the United States, Belgium and Italy.^[2]

Choay was born on 29 March 1925 in Paris. She was awarded the Grand Prix national du Livre d'architecture in 1981 and 2007.^[1][3]

Choay died on 8 January 2025, at the age of 99.^[4]

Publications

• — (1960) Le Corbusier, George Braziller ^[5]
• — (1969) The Modern City: Planning in the Nineteenth Century, George Braziller^[6]
• — (1992) L'allégorie du patrimoine, Seuil^[7]
• — (1997) The Rule and the Model: On the Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT Press^[8]
• — (2001) The invention of the historic monument, Cambridge University Press^[9]
• — (2009). Le Patrimoine en questions: Anthologie pour un combat (in French). ISBN 978-2-02-100494-6. OL 30763957M. Wikidata Q48757378.

References

1. Akademie der Künste: "Biography" (in German). Retrieved 19 August 2014
2. URCAUE: "Patrimoine et Modernite" Archived 20 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2014
3. French Ministry of Culture: "Christine Albanel félicite Françoise Choay..." (in French), 20 December 2007
4. "Françoise Choay (1925–2025) – igloo" (in Romanian). Retrieved 10 January 2025.
5. Choay, Françoise (1960). Le Corbusier. G. Braziller. Le Corbusier Choay.
6. Choay, Françoise (1970). The modern city: planning in the 19th century. G. Braziller. ISBN 9780807605165.
7. "L'Allégorie du patrimoine, Françoise Choay, Sciences humaines - Seuil". www.seuil.com (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2019.
8. "The Rule and the Model". The MIT Press. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
9. "The invention of the Historic Monument" (PDF). 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2019.