Auguste Choisy

Auguste Choisy (7 February 1841 – 18 September 1909) was a French architectural historian and author of Histoire de l'Architecture.

As part of his studies, he traveled to Rome and Athens where his interest was in the structures of ancient monuments rather than their decorative detail.

[1] He was professor of architecture at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées from 1877 to 1901.

He then used this visual approach to describe buildings in social and material terms along with historical determinism.

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