Philibert de l'Orme - PHILIBERT DE L'ORME Traités d'architecture - 1988

Philibert de l'Orme
Treatises on Architecture
New Inventions for Building Well and at Low Cost (1561)
First Volume of Architecture (1567)
Presentation by Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos
Léonce Laget, bookseller-publisher, Paris, 1988
TBE
Rare and out of print

Philibert Delorme (1514-1570) was a French architect from Lyon, today regarded as a major artistic figure of the French Renaissance.
He is first trained by his father, the project manager.
He then set off to complete his training in Italy between 1533 and 1536.
In Rome, he studies ancient architecture and that of the Renaissance.
Upon his return to France, he is commissioned to create private residences, notably the Château de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne) in 1541.
In 1548, Henry II (1519-1559) named him royal architect and commissioned him to construct the tomb of Francis I at Saint-Denis.
As the king's architect, he oversees numerous projects, such as the Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne (demolished in the 18th century), and the Château d'Anet for Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566).
In 1564, Catherine de' Medici (1519–1589) entrusted him with the construction of the Tuileries Palace.
In parallel, he writes architectural treatises: The New Inventions for Building Well at Low Cost (1561) and The First Tome of Architecture (1567).
He died in Paris in 1570.