Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre
Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre , according to other sources also Stephen Eugène Sauvestre , (born December 26, 1847 in Bonnétable , † 1919 ) was a French architect who was best known for his reworking of the Eiffel Tower .
Life
Sauvestre was born in 1847 in Bonnétable, the son of Nicéphore Charles Sauvestre (1818-1883) and Claire Clairian. As his father got a job as editor at the Paris newspaper Courier Loir et Cher a year later , the family moved to the capital.
Stephen Sauvestre graduated from the École spéciale d'architecture in Paris in 1868 . After initially working on smaller projects, he met Gustave Eiffel and designed the Pavillon du Gaz for him for the Paris World's Fair in 1878 . During the redesign of Paris under the direction of urban planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sauvestre contributed to the design of numerous residential buildings in the 17th arrondissement .
Sauvestre, who worked at Gustave Eiffel & Cie , was commissioned by Eiffel in the spring of 1886 to revise the design of the Eiffel Tower. The technically mature, but very sober-looking pylône de 300 mètres de hauteur by Maurice Koechlin appeared to Eiffel as little promising to be able to win the tender . Sauvestre provided the tower with various decorative elements, including a monumental arch, which, although not necessary for the load-bearing capacity, was much better suited to the requirement of being used as an entrance portal for the world exhibition. He also reduced the number of platforms to three. With Sauvestre's design, which was submitted again somewhat revised, Eiffel finally won the tender for the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 .
Works (selection)
- 1876: Hôtel Seyrig in Paris
- 1878: Pavillon du Gaz for the Paris World Exhibition in 1878
- 1879: École nationale supérieure de chimie de Mulhouse
- 1881: House at 61 Rue Ampère
- 1884: Albert Menier's house in Neuilly-sur-Seine
- 1884–1885: Hôtel Béranger in Tours
- 1887–1889: Eiffel Tower
- 1889: Galerie des Machines for the Paris World Exhibition in 1889
- 1906–1908: the so-called cathedral in the Menier chocolate factory
- around 1907: Collaboration on Saint-Germain-en-Laye Castle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre. In: Structurae
- ↑ Béatrice Bouvier: l'edition d'architecture à paris au 19e siecle: les maisons bance et morel et la presse architecturale. Droz 2003, ISBN 2-600-00879-9 , p. 392.
- ↑ L'architecte de la Tour Eiffel. Stephen Sauvestre (French)
- ↑ Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre - Exposition 2006 ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French), accessed March 27, 2012.
- ↑ Béatrice Bouvier: l'edition d'architecture à paris au 19e siecle: les maisons bance et morel et la presse architecturale. Droz 2003, ISBN 2-600-00879-9 , p. 392.
- ^ Charles von Büren: The 300-meter tower. Baufachverlag Dietikon 1988, ISBN 3-85565-227-9 , p. 45.
- ↑ Birgit Seelhofer-Schilling: Corded reinforced concrete supports. Vdf Hochschulverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7281-3223-9 , p. 91.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sauvestre, Charles Léon Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sauvestre, Stephen Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonnétable |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1919 |