Albert Laprade

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Laprade's grave in the Pere Lachaise cemetery

Albert Laprade (born November 29, 1883 in Buzançais , † May 9, 1978 in Paris ) was a French architect and urban planner .

Life

The Villa Magdalena, now the Hôtel le Minaret

Laprade was born in 1883 as the son of a grocer and a seamstress in Buzançais near Châteauroux . He attended the Lycée du Châteauroux from 1894 to 1900. Between 1900 and 1903 he then did his military service. From 1903 he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. There he became a student of Ernest Cléret and Gaston Redon . While still a student, he worked for the architects and urban planners René Sergent , an uncle by marriage, and Henri Prost . In 1907 he completed his studies with a diploma.

In 1914 Laprade was called up for military service and was wounded near Ypres the following year . He was transferred to Rouen to recover , but the wound was too severe and he did not have to return to the war. In the same year he was sent to Henri Prost in Morocco, who was responsible for town planning there. With Prost, Laprade built, among other things, the new town of Casablanca and designed the seat of the permanent representative of the French government in Rabat . In 1920 he went back to France and opened his own architectural office, which he led at times together with other architects.

Between 1932 and 1960 he was chief architect for public buildings and national palaces, between 1944 and 1958 he was chief architect of the Ministry of Reconstruction and architect for the reconstruction of Le Mans .

Laprade was a member of the “Société des Architectes moderne”, vice-president of the Académie d'Architecture , founding member of the Union internationale des architectes and a member of the editorial board of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui .

Honors and awards (selection)

Works (selection)

The prefecture in Paris

literature

  • Pierre Vago: Albert Laprade . In: Muriel Emanuel: Contemporary Architects . Mac millan press, 1980, pp. 514f
  • Jean-Paul Midant: Albert Laprade . Dictionnaire de l'Architecture du XXe siècle, Hazan, Paris, 1996, pp. 510f

Web links

Commons : Albert Laprade  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Extensive biography , Cité de L'Architecture et du Pratrimoine, Institut français d'architecture (French, PDF; 314 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of Section III of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
  2. ^ Entry on Albert Laprade , Cité de L'Architecture et du Pratrimoine, Institut français d'architecture
personal data
SURNAME Laprade, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Buzançais
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1978
Place of death Paris