Françoise Choay

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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]

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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.
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