Name
Bouvard, Joseph-Antoine

Gender
Male

Birth
February 19, 1840 Saint-Jean-de-Bournay

Death
November 5, 1920 Marly-le-Roi

Descriptive Note

Joseph-Antoine Bouvard was a French architect. He trained with Hugues Quenin in Vienna, Austria, and in 1864 he enrolled in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he studied under Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux. Among his realized projects are the Caserme de la Garde Républicaine (1882-1883) and the Bourse du Travail in Paris (1892), and the railway stations of Saint-Étienne-Châteaucreux (1882-1884) and Marseilles-Saint-Charles (1893-1896).

He was involved in many International Expositions: he designed the Pavilion of the City of Paris for the Exposition of 1878, and the central dome of Galerie des Machines at the Exposition of 1899 in Paris. He had a leading role in the organization of the 1900 Paris Exposition, and designed the beautiful neoclassical Pavilion of the city of Paris for the Exposition of 1911 in Turin.

Roles
Makers, Architects and Engineers

Related Locations

• Paris
• Vienna
• Marly-le-Roi
• Saint-Jean-de-Bournay

Related Built Environment Objects

• Pavilion of France
• Pavilion of the City of Paris