Pierre-Alexis Delamair

Pierre-Alexis Delamair (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ aleksi dəlamɛːʁ]; 1675/6 in Châtenay-Malabry – 25 July 1745 in Agde) was a French architect, theorist and city planner, whose ambitious plan for a rational restructuring of the center of Paris, 1737, never came to fruition, as it would have required the demolition of the existing city to be replaced with an ideal city.

The idea was taken up by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux in 1769[2] and expanded towards the end of the 18th century by Pierre Patte and by Charles De Wailly.

Delamair completed four hôtels particuliers, the Hôtel Chanac de Pompadour (1704–1705) in Paris for Abbé Pierre Hélie Chanac de Pompadour,[3] the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris (1704–1709), for François de Rohan, prince de Soubise, and the adjoining Hôtel de Rohan (1705–1708), built for Soubise's son, Armand-Gaston, bishop of Strasbourg,[4][5] and revisions to the former Palais Rohan in Strasbourg (1705–1708, demolished within Delamair's lifetime for the present structure).

His replacement at the Rohan houses by Germain Boffrand, at the moment of his precocious triumph, left him an embittered man.

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