Andrew Tallon used lasers to create a precise model of Notre-Dame de Paris, among other buildings.
14 Facts About Andrew Tallon
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Andrew Tallon attended high school in the US, graduating from Shorewood High School in Wisconsin.
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Andrew Tallon attended Princeton University for his undergraduate studies where he earned a degree in music in 1991.
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Andrew Tallon received an MA at Paris-Sorbonne University and a PhD at Columbia University under the advisement of Stephen Murray, an art historian.
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Andrew Tallon used laser scanners to map the interior and exterior of the Notre-Dame, as well as 45 other historical buildings.
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Andrew Tallon began scanning Notre-Dame in 2010 with Paul Blaer, going over the interior and exterior of the building.
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In December 2014, Andrew Tallon mapped the Canterbury Cathedral in England, collecting 5.5 billion data points over the course of two and a half days.
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Andrew Tallon repositioned the scanner slightly fewer than one hundred times to obtain comprehensive coverage.
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Andrew Tallon was a member of the Society of Architectural Historians from 2006 to 2017.
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Andrew Tallon was a founder of the Friends of Notre-Dame Foundation, a US-based organization that sought to collect donations for maintenance and renovations for Notre-Dame.
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Andrew Tallon contributed to a television documentary called Building the Great Cathedrals which first aired on Nova in 2010.
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An art exhibition based on Andrew Tallon's work was displayed in Notre-Dame, called "Notre-Dame of Paris: Nine Centuries in the Life of a Cathedral".
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Andrew Tallon was married to Marie Andrew Tallon-Daudruy and had four children.
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Andrew Tallon died of brain cancer on 16 November 2018 at his home in Poughkeepsie, New York.