Françoise Choay (born 29 March 1925) is a French architectural and urban historian and theorist. Since 1973, she has been a professor at the

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.Akademie der Kunste
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(in German) retrieved 19 August 2014 She has also been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the

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. Choay was born on 29 March 1925 in

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. She was awarded the ''Grand Prix national du Livre d'architecture'' in 1981 and 2007.

Publications

*— (1960) ''Le Corbusier'', George Braziller *— (1969) ''The Modern City: Planning in the Nineteenth Century'', George Braziller *— (1992) ''L'allégorie du patrimoine'', Seuil *— (1997) ''The Rule and the Model: On the Theory of Architecture and Urbanism'', MIT Press *— (2001) ''The invention of the historic monument'', Cambridge University Press *

References

1925 births Living people French architectural historians French women academics Academic staff of the University of Paris Architects from Paris Historians of urban planning Urban theorists Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin French women historians {{France-historian-stub