1769


Thomas Cooley
architect; b. 1740; d. 1784.
Cooley won first premium for a design for the Royal Exchange, Dublin (Ireland), in 1769, and completed that building in 1779. He built several other public buildings in Dublin.


Jacques Gondouin
architect; b. October 1, 1737; d. December 29, 1818.
Gondouin was a pupil of Jacques François Blondel. He designed and built the École de Médecine, Paris, which was begun in 1769 and finished in 1786. In association with Lepère he built between 1806 and 1810 the Colonne of the Place Vendôme, formerly Colonne de la Grande Armée.


Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini (Rome: 1769), selected plates.



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