François Brunet de Baines
French architect
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history of Latin American architecture
- In Latin American architecture: Architecture of the new independent republics, c. 1810–70
…in 1849 by the Frenchman François Brunet de Baines. In both the school’s pedagogy and its architecture, Brunet introduced to Santiago the influence of the French Beaux-Arts eclectic historicism. He then began to work for the government and designed the new Municipal Theatre (1853) in Santiago. In Uruguay the new…
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