Alfred Agache (architect)

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Alfred Agache

Alfred Hubert Donat Agache (born February 24, 1875 in Tours , † May 4, 1959 in Paris ; sometimes called Alfredo Agache ) was a French architect and city ​​planner .

biography

His mother Lucie Kuhlmann was a daughter of the industrialist Frédéric Kuhlmann , his father Édouard a chemical and textile industrialist from the Lille region . His uncle, also called Alfred Agache , was a well-known painter. Agache completed his architecture studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1905 . In 1912 he reached third place in the design competition for the new Australian capital Canberra , behind Walter Burley Griffin and Eliel Saarinen . He also drew up master plans for the cities of Dunkerque , Creil and Poitiers . Agache was a co-founder of the Société Française des Urbanistes , the French society of urbanists .

From 1927 worked in Brazil and designed master plans for the cities of Rio de Janeiro , Porto Alegre and Curitiba . His plans usually turned out to be too costly. However, they formed the basis for further plans, which were then implemented. Curitiba is still considered one of the best planned cities in the world today.

Chronology of his most important urban planning projects

  • 1911: Realization of his town planning of Dunkerque , in which the aim was to connect the center with the industrial suburbs by all available transport routes.
  • 1912: Canberra town planning
  • 1913: Appointed General Secretary of the Musée social . He gave his first lectures on urban planning at the École libre des sciences sociales .
  • 1915: He participated in the reconstruction of the cities destroyed by the First World War.
  • 1923: Appointed Secretary of the Société française des urbanistes .
  • 1927–1932: Overall urban planning of Rio de Janeiro : The renewal of a large city , which comprehensively included the renewal and decoration of the city. Agache wanted to emphasize the architecture and power of this big city in the spirit of social urban planning. This work is considered to be the largest urban planning realized in Agache.
  • 1943: With the help of his two students, he carried out the urban planning of Curitiba . This plan is still seen today as a model of ecological urban development.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Pouchain: Les maîtres du Nord: you XIXe siècle à nos jours . Editions Perrin, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2-262-00935-9 , pp. 55 .