An Outlier of Style: Situating Paul Bigot’s Institut d’Art et d’Archeologie within the Emergence of Modernism

Claudia Mannix
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: France
Period: 20th century

10,000 words

This dissertation is written with the aim of bringing the attention of an English speaking audience the architectural work of French architect Paul Bigot. The only source dedicated to the building is Simon Texier’s French language ‘Institut d’Art et d’Archeologie Paris, 1932’ ‘L’institut d’Art et d’Archeologie was built in 1925-32 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and it stands out on the corner of l’Avenue de l’Observatoire and Rue Michelet as monumental mass of red brick, with flaming red fortress-like crenallations ahooting into the sky atop the structure. The building has been much overlooked in the literature of the 20th century, both in French and English. Little could be found in French literature to identify the many styles the building refers to or makes links between Bigot and potential exemplars of his work.

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An Outlier of Style: Situating Paul Bigot’s Institut d’Art et d’Archeologie within the Emergence of Modernism