Joseph-Jacques Ramée

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Joseph Ramée in 1832

Joseph-Jacques Ramée (April 26, 1764 in Charlemont, France — May 18, 1842 at the Chateau de Beaurains, Noyon) was a French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist idiom.

He was a student of the architect and landscape architect François-Joseph Bélanger. In his lifetime, he worked in France, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and the USA. He also published books on landscaping with his own numerous garden designs as examples.

Images

Mansion proposal, front façade and situation plan, 1796
Mansion proposal, garden façade and ground plan, 1796
Bathing room in the Brun family townhouse, Copenhagen
Union College in Schenectady, USA, situation plan, c. 1813

Literature

Paul Venable Turner: Joseph Ramée. International Architect of the Revolutionary Era. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne 1996
Bärbel Hedinger und Julia Berger (Hrsg.): Joseph Ramée, Gartenkunst, Architektur, Dekoration, ein Internationaler Baukünstler des Klassizismus, Altonaer Museum, Deutscher Kunstverlag, München, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-422-06436-2

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 57363978 LCCN: n95041508 ISNI: 0000 0000 6677 7809 GND: 116327243

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Name	Ramee, Joseph-Jacques
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Short description	French architect
Date of birth	1764
Place of birth
Date of death	1842
Place of death

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