Académie royale d'architecture

The Académie Royale d'Architecture (akademi ʁwajal d‿aʁʃitɛktyʁ; "Royal Academy of Architecture") was a French learned society founded in 1671. It had a leading role in influencing architectural theory and education, not only in France, but throughout Europe and the Americas from the late 17th century to the mid-20th. The Académie Royale d'Architecture was founded on December 30, 1671, by Louis XIV, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Its first director was the mathematician and engineer François Blondel (1618–1686), and the secretary was André Félibien (1619 –1695). The academy was housed in the Louvre for most of its existence, and included a school of architecture. Its members met weekly. Jacques-François Blondel describes the academy quarters in his Architecture françoise of 1756. The main rooms were on the ground floor and included two lecture halls, one for meetings of the academy members on Mondays and mathematics lectures on Wednesdays (B3), and another for public lectures on architecture on Mondays (B4). There was also a large room for the display of architectural models (B5). The rooms for the secretary of the academy were in the mezzanine level, reached via the staircase. The academy quarters were temporarily roofed at the level of the main floor (premier étage), since much of the Louvre still lacked a roof at the level of the attic. The attic roof was finally added under Napoleon. File:Louvre - Plan au rez-de-chaussée - Architecture françoise Tome4 Livre6 Pl5 (Académie d'Architecture).jpg|Louvre ground-floor plan of 1754 showing the Académie rooms (yellow), located in the north wing (bottom) File:Louvre - Plan au rez-de-chaussée - Architecture françoise Tome4 Livre6 Pl5 (Académie d'Architecture, detail).jpg|Detail showing the Académie rooms File:Palais du Louvre on the map of Turgot 1739 - Kyoto U.

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