Theorist
Antoine Quatremère de Quincy
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Details
- Nationality
- French
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
Archaeologist and theorist; author of the entry 'Type' in the Encyclopédie Méthodique (vol. 3, 1825).
Connections
- proposed Architectural Typology
- influenced Aldo Rossi
- authored Encyclopédie Méthodique: Architecture, vol. 3 ('Type')
- preceded Aldo Rossi
- opposes Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Referenced by
- Marc-Antoine Laugier influenced
Sources
- Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy. Encyclopédie méthodique: Architecture. Panckoucke, 1788.
- Sylvia Lavin. Quatremère de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture. MIT Press, 1992.
- Soane Collections. n.d.. https://collections.soane.org/b8001.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Antoine Quatremère de Quincy." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/quatremere-de-quincy/. Accessed July 17, 2026.